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In July 2007, Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum designated the form that the Tridentine Mass was given in 1962 as “an extraordinary form” of the Roman Rite, the “ordinary form” being the form introduced in 1969-1970 also known as the Roman Missal format as used at the present time. The question arises as to why Pope Benedict XVI was intent on promulgating the Tridentine mass format at the present time, maybe because celebrants were instituting their own format of the mass and thus deviating from the Roman missal format, certainly it was not the Latin aspect that was the issue.