[ Video ] Rorate MEF (Candle-Lit Mass)

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Dear Traditional Catholicism Community,
I bring good news on this day of advent and testify that the Lord has blessed our state of North Carolina with many openings of the Latin Mass! Just this morning was a unique candle-lit Mass called “Rorate MEF” and tomorrow a Solemn High Mass at a different parish. Just wanted to say how wonderful of an experience it is to have this opportunity to attend the reverence.

I’d like to ask you - how is the MEF doing in your state? Our state has four major movements in all our Dioceses. If you are part of any I’d be interested to hear what your activities are like!

The majority of our group are all college age and older. We have parents, grandparents and even clergy who are very supportive of each other. The spirit of cooperation dwells despite having four different group throughout our state. The Latin Mass Society has a weekly Latin Rosary, monthly Solemn High Mass including a dinner afterwards with a guest speaker. We also have a webtv show that we broadcast to keep the members intertwined in between these long meetings.

If you are interesting in watching the Candle Lit Mass out of curiosity, feel free to visit here: lmsociety.com/121215rorate.html
 
In SC there are a few parishes that celebrate it. The cathedral parish has it quite often, the bishop seems quite friendly to it, and there is one parish that celebrates it every day. This latter parish also uses the EF for many blessings and liturgical opportunities that are absent in the OF.
 
Pardon my ignorance; but I have always thought that MEF was Marine Expeditionary Force. At least it meant that while I was in the Corps.

So I’m going to guess that it now means Mass Extraordinay Form. Is that correct?
If not, please enlighten me.

God Bless
 
I would say fairly active. There are 3 places that I know of in the Archdiocese that have it. One is a very old parish (second oldest in the Archdiocese, and I believe the oldest still in the original church building) that has the EF every Sunday and on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I believe this has been going on for a long time. The pastor is a Diocesan priest, I believe.

The FSSP also have a parish, which I believe has only been established within the last few years. They don’t have a building, so they meet at a “regular” parish. They of course have the EF every day.

The University of St. Thomas in Houston offers the EF every Friday morning.

I believe those are the only EFs here. There used to be one Tuesday night I believe in Huntsville, but the priest moved and the next priest wasn’t interested.

Also nice video! I love the idea of candlelight Mass. Wish there was one around here.
 
My diocese offers the EF in 13 parishes. That includes regular Sunday Masses as well as Mass for First Fridays and other regular daily Mass. Each of these parishes may also celebrate special EF Masses such as the candle-lit Mass you described.
 
I went to my first EF Mass today…well since I was a kid anyway. I guess this was what you would call a Low Mass. There was no choir or chant. But at one point in the middle of the Mass a lone voice of a woman sitting in a pew sang this beautiful hymn and then at the end she sang another hymn. I need to find out what they were. It was beautiful.
 
There is a parish in my city that has an EF Mass every Sunday as well as a Mass in Spanish and an Eastern Rite Mass.
 
Fairly active, but I doubt we’d have Rorate Mass, because the priest is very busy.
 
One church in my town offers a “Solemn Latin” mass every Sunday. I went once and I believe it was an ordinary form Latin Mass rather than an EFM. It was beautiful, but I can’t say much for my ability to sign in Latin. :o
 
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