The bulk of the liturgy celebrated on the FUS Campus is in the OF and has a very charismatic spirituality to it. The EF recently started being celebrated there, I believe, in March. FUS has seen fit that two priests learn how to celebrate the EF for the Campus. As far as I know the EF is not being celebrated on a weekly Sunday basis quite yet.
This may be of some interest to you:
wdtprs.com/blog/2008/04/images-from-tlm-at-franciscan-u-at-steubenville/
I do know a young man who transferred to FUS when he seriously started to discern the priesthood. He is in seminary now in Rome, and from what he has said, he absolutely loved it there. There is another seminarian in the diocese too here that graduated from FUS. While the second mentioned is certainly very orthodox, he has a definite charismatic spirituality. They do have a very good Theology program and a very well-known Catholic identity. It may be a bit of a sacrifice though, since the EF is not being celebrated consistently, as far as I know.
Christendom College offers two Masses a day for it’s students, all in the OF, but with three of them a week in Latin. Then on Sunday there is a solemn Latin liturgy with chant and polyphony. There is one priest there offering it, their chaplain.
Article on the EF at Christendom:
christendom.edu/news/archives/archives07/mass.shtml
Christendom is a great college with a pretty traditional spirituality. Christendom was actually one of the few Catholic colleges who started offering the EF after the implementation of the Motu Proprio. A number of my relatives have graduated from Christendom, and there is a lot of good to say about the school. Very solid Catholic identity, and it has turned out a number of priests (then again, so has FUS and the others mentioned here).
Thomas Aquinas College offers the Extraordinary Form of the Mass
daily, and then also on Sunday of course. It has a solid Catholic identity, and has turned out a number of priests too. Was another one of the few schools that, like Christendom, started offering the EF immediately upon implementation of the Motu Proprio.
Article on the EF at TAC:
faithfulrebel.blogspot.com/2007/09/thomas-aquinas-college-to-offer-daily.html
Thomas Aquinas also has among it’s alumni, Fr. John Berg, F.S.S.P., Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. He actually studied philosophy at Thomas Aquinas College and theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, the university you mentioned.
Here is an article on their alumni who pursued vocations to the priesthood:
thomasaquinas.edu/alumni/profiles/priests.htm
Also, this is a personal observation from someone discerning religious life: It seems to me that a number of different monasteries/convents have a particular bulk of vocations from certain colleges. A number of the monasteries that I have looked into that strictly only celebrate the EF have had a little handful of vocations from TAC - which I think kind of says something for the college.
Not everyone prefers the EF at TAC, or so I read, but I believe the majority there do. The school definitely has a particularly traditional spirituality.
Ave Maria University has a Novus Ordo in Latin daily, which is substituted for the EF on Thursdays. They also have two English Masses a day as well. Then, on Sunday they have one Mass in the EF, one in the OF in Latin, two in OF in English, and one in the OF in Latin and English. But if a chaplain is not available to offer the EF as scheduled, then it reverts back to the OF in Latin.
Another great thing about Ave Maria is their Pre-Theologate program. I don’t know much about it, but I do know the female discernment program is fantastic. So, if the guy’s discernment program is like the ladies’ then you may be very interested in it.
avemaria.edu/religiousdiscernment/
Ave Maria started having the EF not directly after the MP, as I think there were some liturgical issues going on at the school (or so I read). I don’t know who to believe
. They have a solid, Catholic identity there too though.
