Pope Benedict uses older ritual for his private Mass!

[Geremia]

From CatholicCulture: (kudos blogIte ad Thomam):

**Pope Benedict uses older ritual for his private Mass July 16, 2007 **

  Pope Benedict XVI, who recently issued a *motu proprio*  allowing all Catholic priests to celebrate the old Latin Mass, uses the  older ritual himself for his private Mass, CWN has learned.

Informed sources at the Vatican have confirmed reports that the Holy Father regularly celebrates Mass using the 1962 Roman Missal.

In his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum the Pope says that the older form-- the form in universal use before the liturgical changes that followed Vatican II-- was never abrogated.

Since becoming Roman Pontiff, Benedict XVI has always used the new ritual-- which he identifies in Summorum Pontificum as the “ordinary form” of the Roman rite-- for public celebrations of the Eucharistic liturgy. However few people have witnessed the Pope celebrating his private daily Mass.

Unlike his predecessor John Paul II, who regularly invited visitors to attend the Mass that he celebrated each morning in his private chapel, Benedict XVI has made it his regular practice to celebrate Mass with only a few aides. The Pope’s closest associates have established a reputation for preserving confidences.

Pope Benedict has long been known as an ardent defender of the Catholic liturgical tradition. In the early 1990s he raised eyebrows in Rome by writing a laudatory preface to the book The Reform of the Roman Liturgy, in which Msgr. Klaus Gamber decried many of the liturgical changes of the past few decades.

Then-Cardinal Ratzinger also traveled to Wigratzbad, in Bavaria, to ordain priests for the Fraternity of St. Peter, a group devoted to the use of the traditional liturgy. He performed those ordinations, as well as Mass on Easter Sunday in 1990, using the 1962 Roman Missal

Maybe he will do an Etraordinary Form mass in public? Extraordinary Form for an extraordinary pope!

 

[ProVobis]

Good headsup. Thanks for the info.

 

[Lycorth]

Made me smile

 

[Adeodatus]

May it please God that it shall be so.

 

[Erin_Anne]

 

[Geremia]

From CatholicCulture: (kudos Ite ad Thomam blog):Maybe he will do an Etraordinary Form mass in public? Extraordinary Form for an extraordinary pope!

This is old news, though (July 2007). I wonder why it didn’t seem to be public then?

 

[JohnT58]

I said no, though I think it would be good if he did. I just think that the thinking of the mainstream would be that most people wouldn’t be able to relate to it, more especially, non-catholics. The pope saying a TLM in public would do a lot to promote its use in parishes. In my diocese there is only one, occasionally, in one parish.

 

[corsair]

I said “no” as I don’t think the Holy Father will celebrate it in a public Mass. he has his plate full with other problems. We need to pray for him. he is under attack.

 

[ljubim]

I didn’t vote… it would be the most incredible thing to all of us who love the TLM for the Pope to do this. I really don’t want to speculate, this is a very big thing! I hope he does!!!

 

[Geremia]

I said “no” as I don’t think the Holy Father will celebrate it in a public Mass. he has his plate full with other problems. We need to pray for him. he is under attack.

Using the EF publically wouldn’t constitute his stepping up his defense against attack? He certainly isn’t ashamed of it.

 

[JosephdeMaistre]

From CatholicCulture: (kudos Ite ad Thomam blog):

Then-Cardinal Ratzinger also traveled to Wigratzbad, in Bavaria, to ordain priests for the Fraternity of St. Peter, a group devoted to the use of the traditional liturgy. He performed those ordinations, as well as Mass on Easter Sunday in 1990, using the 1962 Roman Missal

Guess which missal I use.

 

[Monica4316]

God bless the Holy Father

 

[LoyalViews]

I say he will, because he is very orthodox and traditional, like me,
or, I am traditional and orthodox like HIM.

God Bless him! I say he will!

 

[Holly3278]

I don’t know but I hope he does.