My first Latin mass since childhood

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That booklet is just the ordinary of the mass. It helps to follow along but of course you still need a missal to know the readings and other prayers. I was just trying to help him get started in keeping up with the order of the mass.
 
You are extremely lucky! I have been searching every estate sale and antique shop for one. No luck so far 😐
 
Yes but it’s a small booklet. It’s really 16 pages because one is English and the other Latin. It also has the Leonine prayers.
 

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Quattuor abhinc annos is the incipit of a letter that the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments sent on 3 October 1984 to presidents of episcopal conferences concerning celebration of Mass in the Tridentine form. Wikipedia

Pope St John Paul II restored the old Latin Mass. Two stipulations: 1. Only the 1962 liturgical books were to be used. 2. The Mass was to be said in Latin.
 
JSRG said:
I wish there was an option to have something that’s exactly like the Latin Mass but conducted in the vernacular.
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Is there an Ordinariate Parish anywhere close to you? My understanding is that their Missal is very close to an English version of the Tridentine Mass.
 
I looked it up. The closest one to me appears to be 4 hours away, unfortunately.
 
Nostalgia is great. But, the Mass today, I truly cherish.
 
Hmmm. Is your comment about “nostalgia” meant to be rude? It seems rather rude to me.
 
My parish has a Sunday Mass in Latin once a month. However, this is from the 1970 Missale Romanum, which is probably not what you mean. A few months ago, we had an extraordinary rite funeral with me and another elderly altar server attending the priest. The liturgy, especially for the servers is rather balletic, bowing and genuflecting in unison and mirroring each other’s actions. I found it very interesting and nostalgic, but it’s not an aspect of the pre-Vatican II Church that I miss.
 
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ontheway1 said:
This raises a good issue. Is there an Latin-English missal available on the market?
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Yes. One printed by Baronius Press and the other printed by Angelus Press. You can find them on their websites.
 
Nostalgia relates to something ‘in the past’.

The EF is not 'something in the past".

It is very current. It is 'the Mass today" just as it was the Mass yesterday and will be the Mass tomorrow.

(No, I am not saying the OF is not ‘the Mass today.’ It is. It is a perfectly valid rite. But it is not ‘in opposition to’ the EF, and preferring the EF does not make somebody ‘nostalgic’)
 
There’s lots of them available. Most parishes offering the TLM have the little red booklet that was issued by the Ecclesia Dei commission. Also, you could probably find one at a used bookstore.

TAN Books 1-800-437-5876 has Latin-English missals available. I highly recommend them.
 
Was it Eastern Catholic or Eastern Orthodox? In the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, we call it Divine Liturgy, not Mass.
 
JoeShlabotnik said:
Nostalgia is great. But, the Mass today, I truly cherish.
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Seriously, “nostalgia”? Most people at Latin Masses I’ve ever attended weren’t even born in 1962.

You really want to talk “nostalgia”, just look at all the 70-85 year olds in the choir still singing old “new” songs written in the 60s through 90s.
 
I am fortunate to live near several parishes that conduct quite reverent and orthodox ordinary form masses. My home parish, in which my family and I are registered, is ok. No novelties, but not really striving much to change anything, and the music - while we have talented cantors and an organist - is chosen from the most uninspiring 1970s and 1980s bland songs.

I sometimes attend the EF parish nearby, but with small children it is difficult to make it through the approximate 1.5 hour or more Mass without multiple bathroom breaks, kids getting antsy, etc. So I sometimes attend weekday Mass there alone. And there is a massive presence of young folks there, and it’s packed.
 
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