Pontifical High Mass at St. Peter's Basilica

[MikeDunphy]

This morning, for the first time in almost 50 years, a Pontifical High Mass was celebrated at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s.

youtube.com/watch?v=_EvzSPDS83c

God bless the Pope, Cardinal Brandmüller, Cardinal Bartolucci and the good souls who worked to make this Mass possible.

(Cdl Brandmüller sang the Mass, Cdl Bartolucci conducted the choir).

 

[ProVobis]

This morning, for the first time in almost 50 years, a Pontifical High Mass was celebrated at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s.

youtube.com/watch?v=_EvzSPDS83c

God bless the Pope, Cardinal Brandmüller, Cardinal Bartolucci and the good souls who worked to make this Mass possible.

(Cdl Brandmüller sang the Mass, Cdl Bartolucci conducted the choir).

Very impressive.

 

[malphono]

Yes, very nice. As an aside, in the procession I noticed a number of Franciscans (looked like the FI) as well as a goodly number of Dominicans.

 

[Denise1957]

Wow…awesome!

I found a longer version of this Mass, about 15 minutes or so, though the picture quality isn’t as good as the one in the OP:

youtube.com/watch?v=B7LNu6jCmes&feature=player_embedded

The procession into the basillica is quite lengthy, about six minutes worth, and the first ten minutes of this beautiful sung Mass is shown. I wish the camera would have panned over to the choir though, which was excellent.

Deo gratias!

 

[GloriousOrder]

I’m so happy! Thank God! This is a massive diplomatic step toward the implementation of Summorum Pontificum and the application of its newly-minted appendix. Just imagine every parish in the world offering a reverent O.F. with a reverent E.F. side-by-side, all the faithful in Jesus’ Body meeting in harmony. What joy! Now we can finally begin to clear away the hateful, vitriolic wreckage left over by 45 years’ hatred from both “sides” in the Catholic Church.

May both forms of the Holy Roman Rite, heavenly Father, reflected Your glory on one another in the ultimate praise of the universe… we pray through Christ our Lord!

 

[At_Trent]

Deo gratias !

 

[MikeDunphy]

Wow…awesome!

I found a longer version of this Mass, about 15 minutes or so, though the picture quality isn’t as good as the one in the OP:

youtube.com/watch?v=B7LNu6jCmes&feature=player_embedded

Thanks for posting the link. The video was wonderful to see. I wonder who recorded it? Whoever it was seems to have gotten as good a seat as one could hope for, short of actually sitting in the sanctuary next to the cardinal.

The procession into the basillica is quite lengthy, about six minutes worth, and the first ten minutes of this beautiful sung Mass is shown. I wish the camera would have panned over to the choir though, which was excellent.

Ask and ye shall receive (although not always quickly):
youtube.com/watch?v=N0iSWmXS1qE

The last 30 days were good ones for the old Mass. Within the past month, we also had the first celebration of a Pontifical High Mass by a diocesan bishop in his own cathedral in quite a while:
thepinoycatholic.blogspot.com/2011/04/first-pontifical-mass-usus-antiquor-in.html

Deo gratias!

 

[valoriuslobo]

Not sure if this is true, but I read on a blog that it was rare for a cardinal to personally conduct the choir.

 

[wsxyz]

Thanks for posting the link. The video was wonderful to see. I wonder who recorded it? Whoever it was seems to have gotten as good a seat as one could hope for, short of actually sitting in the sanctuary next to the cardinal.

John Sonnen posted the video, so I guess he recorded it as well. He is an American who lives in Rome and (I believe) he is a parishioner at the FSSP parish there. Look up his user page on Youtube. He has a lot of nice videos of liturgy in Rome.

 

[Denise1957]

Mike Dunphy, thanks so much for posting the link which showed the choir at the Mass at the Basilica, which is amazing. Some real veteran vocalists there. It’s interesting that there are more men in the choir than women, about twice as many, it looks like. I find that when is the case, the choir sounds a little more balanced, since women can have the tendency to overpower the men’s voices sometimes. Not intentionally, though.
It’s nice, and a little surprising, that a cardinal is leading the choir.

 

[MarkThompson]

Not sure if this is true, but I read on a blog that it was rare for a cardinal to personally conduct the choir.

It’s nice, and a little surprising, that a cardinal is leading the choir.

Domenico Bartolucci was the director of the Sistine Chapel Choir from 1956 to 1997, and is also a prolific composer of sacred music. He was made cardinal last year at the age of 93 (too old to vote in a conclave) as a show of esteem for his service. So it’s not like they just found some cardinal and handed him a conductor’s baton for this Mass.

 

[wisdomseeker]

A sign of the return of the people to God. ALLELUIA!