There's A Traditional Latin Mass Near Me Now!

[Navarricano]

YES!! I just found out that there is a Traditional Latin Mass offered at 1.00 every Sunday in a nearby convent! :dancing:

I’m going hiking with friends in the mountains tomorrow morning, but I’m going to get back here in time for the Mass if I possibly can! If not, I’ll have to wait until next week, because I’ve only just discovered the Mass and I can’t break my appointment with my friends for tomorrow at this late hour …

I’ve also discovered the web page for the Spanish chapter of the Una Voce International Federation (Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce) … does anybody here know anything about this society? They appear to be solid and faithful to the Holy See, so I’m even willing to look into helping to get a chapter started here locally if I can.

It appears that the priest who offers the Mass is a member of the Institute of Christ The King, which I have heard very good things about. Any experiences or information that folks can offer me about them would also be gratefully received.

Let me just state for the record, however, that I am very content with the way that the Novus Ordo Mass is offered here locally in general, and specifically by the priests of Opus Dei who offer the mass I usually attend. Still, I have wanted to attend a EF Form Mass since the publication of the Motu Proprio last year and now I will get to!

 

[brianmichael]

Navarricano,

you’re in Spain? don’t mean to pry but what’s the Novus Ordo like there?

 

[Navarricano]

Brianmichael,

It’s a mixed bag, just like anywhere else, although here in the Archdiocese of Pamplona-Tudela it is normally celebrated correctly and with appropriate reverence. Pamplona has had very good archbishops (our current one is excellent) and Spain in general seems to have missed out the worst of the liturgical abuses of the 70s and early 80s while they were taking place in other places, although there are parishes that seem to be trying to play catch up now …

As I said, it’s a mixed bag and you can find everything from folk masses aimed at university students to monastic liturgies with Gregorian chant, just like in the US. I’m certainly not an expert on liturgies throughout the country as a whole, by any means …

 

[brianmichael]

thnx

 

[malphono]

Navarricano:

As I said, it’s a mixed bag and you can find everything from folk masses aimed at university students to monastic liturgies with Gregorian chant, just like in the US. I’m certainly not an expert on liturgies throughout the country as a whole, by any means …

Well … yes, there are a few monastic liturgies with Gregorian chant in the US, but one has to search far and wide to find them. (They are non existent in the New York area). I suspect it’s less of a problem to find same in Spain (particularly in Catalunya, and perhaps also in Navarra & Basque country, etc), and that not only because of distances.