Should all parishes have the latin mass

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PLAT said:
Well we have Chinese here. And we have a pretty luxurious cathedral with 4 altars. The original one is now used for daily mass, the largest one in the centre for sunday mass, the first “one-way” altar is now used for Eucharist Adoration, and the other “one-way” altar is no longer in use.
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The OF can be said in Latin as well. In fact, it was promulgated in Latin and everything else is a translation that has to be updated every so often.
 
Crusading_Canuk said:
Note how I said “At least for Latin Rite Catholics”. Of course our Eastern brethren have gotten along just fine without the Tridentine Mass because the Divine Liturgy is the liturgical equivalent of the Tridentine Mass for Eastern Rite Catholics and Orthodox. Both the Tridentine Mass and the Divine Liturgy are organic developments of the SAME traditions of the early Christian Masses. No Traditionalist who actually understands the origins of the Mass would argue this and would despise the thought that the Eastern Rite Catholics shuold use the Tridentine Mass. The OF Mass is different though, again I believe that it is perfectly valid and licit (when performed by a Catholic priest) but it is not the organic development of the traditions of the early Christians. It was formulated by Cardinal Bugnini with the contributions of protestants with the intention of “removing even the shadow of a stumbling block” from our “seperated brethren” the protestants. In removing these shadows of “stumbling blocks” those Catholic traditions were also removed.
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Interesting. The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom dates back to the 500s. It developed as a shorter version of the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, which is about 200 years older. And it came from the Liturgy of St. James which is believed to be written by St. James in 60AD.

Wouldn’t the OF be to the Tridentine Mass as the DL of St. John to the DL of St. Basil? Being a shorter version? And what about when St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom introduced their versions of the Divine Liturgy? It was major changes from its predecessor and not merely the organic changes the Divine Liturgy has since experienced over the next 1500 years.
 
Crusading_Canuk said:
The question was if it should be offered in every parish not which is better. With Novus Ordo, all parishes offer it whereas only a few offer the Tridentine Mass. For example here in NL, I have to attend a NO Mass most of the time and only occasionally a Tridentine Mass. Alot of the time traditionalists do not have much of an option.
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Because more people want the OF. Unless the numbers would financially support a regular EF, it just does not make sense for the Bishop to allocate resources (both financial and manpower) to it.
 
Unless the numbers would financially support a regular EF, it just does not make sense for the Bishop to allocate resources (both financial and manpower) to it.
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While we were pursuing our graduate degrees in business, I learned from two fellow classmates who happened to be priests that there are many more long-range factors that enter into a bishop’s decisions in this regard, especially if the Pope decrees that such Masses must be made “wider and more generous.”
 
ProVobis said:
While we were pursuing our graduate degrees in business, I learned from two fellow classmates who happened to be priests that there are many more long-range factors that enter into a bishop’s decisions in this regard, especially if the Pope decrees that such Masses must be made “wider and more generous.”
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Sure, but it still comes down to dollars and cents. It can be subsidized by the diocese, but what if the diocese is struggling as it is? Many dioceses have been merging parishes and selling off smaller ones just to stay afloat financially. Others of course just doesn’t have the manpower to provide them. A metropolis or big city wouldn’t have any problem, but you can’t say the same for a small town or even a moderate sized one but doesn’t have enough Catholics.
 
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