What kind of Latin Mass do you attend?

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I was wondering what type of Latin Mass is the most common.

What type of Latin Mass do you attend?

I attend a Missa Cantata (sung Mass with Gregorian Chant choir) and I love this Mass. Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a Low Mass and this was entirely different; there was no singing, no incense, no Aspereges, and definitely no chant. I was suprised to discover the different varieties of Latin Masses. I would love to attend a High Mass.

Has anyone attended a dialogue Mass? Do they still have dialogue Masses these days?
 
We only have Low Mass right now, although I’m hoping for more. 🙂 🙂 🙂
 
joamy said:
We only have Low Mass right now, although I’m hoping for more. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I have attended Low Mass, High Mass and Solemn High Mass. I would love to attend a Pontifical High Mass or even a Papal High Mass!
 
Dempsey1919 said:
I was wondering what type of Latin Mass is the most common.

What type of Latin Mass do you attend?

I attend a Missa Cantata (sung Mass with Gregorian Chant choir) and I love this Mass. Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a Low Mass and this was entirely different; there was no singing, no incense, no Aspereges, and definitely no chant. I was suprised to discover the different varieties of Latin Masses. I would love to attend a High Mass.

Has anyone attended a dialogue Mass? Do they still have dialogue Masses these days?
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The Mass I attend is Cantata on most Sundays, and once a month (and on feast days of Our Lord), the Solemnis is celebrated, technically a Pontifical Solemnis as the Bishop celebrates those at the Cathedral.

I’ve never seen a Dialogue Mass celebrated in my diocese, nor heard of one in the surrounding area. Are they still celebrated? shrugs Beats me.
 
We have a sung High Mass and a Low Mass on Sundays - we attend both with regularity and I love both. I have a proclivity towards the Low Mass because I can follow a little easier… though I LOVE the Asperges before the High Mass.
 
There’s something to be said for a good Low Mass though.

I like the Low Mass/High Mass distintion- in the NO there’s not much difference between your parish priest saying an 5:00 PM Tuesday evening Mass and your local Bishop saying an 8:00 AM Sunday morning Mass
 
Missa Cantata every Sunday with the occasional Solemn High Mass. Low Mass on Monday and Wednesday mornings, Thursday evenings, and in the morning on the 1st Saturday of the month.

James
 
I have been attending Mass at St. John Cantius in Chicago. They have Missa Normativa in English, in Latin, Tridentine High Mass and Low Mass…so take your pick. On Sunday mornings, they offer Greek and Latin classes, which I attend before I head over for Mass. The church itself is gorgeous, almost to distraction. The choirs are unseen but seem to be coming from heaven. The first time I attended, even though it was the Missa Normative in Latin, I felt transported into a heavenly realm! I cried through most of the Mass, not just because it was so beautiful and reverently done, but because I realized that so many of the previous Masses I had attended seemed like a cartoon shadow of what I had witnessed that morning. I have been so fed up with liturgical abuses and self directed novelites that I fear I won’t be able to return to just any Mass again. Many drive from out of state each Sunday. Take a virtual tour www.cantius.org
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kidderdoc said:
I have been attending Mass at St. John Cantius in Chicago. They have Missa Normativa in English, in Latin, Tridentine High Mass and Low Mass…so take your pick. On Sunday mornings, they offer Greek and Latin classes, which I attend before I head over for Mass. The church itself is gorgeous, almost to distraction. The choirs are unseen but seem to be coming from heaven. The first time I attended, even though it was the Missa Normative in Latin, I felt transported into a heavenly realm! I cried through most of the Mass, not just because it was so beautiful and reverently done, but because I realized that so many of the previous Masses I had attended seemed like a cartoon shadow of what I had witnessed that morning. I have been so fed up with liturgical abuses and self directed novelites that I fear I won’t be able to return to just any Mass again. Many drive from out of state each Sunday. Take a virtual tour www.cantius.org
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WHAT A LINK, thank you! No wonder people drive from far away for that!
 
Usually the local Low Mass on Sundays, but… I just got back a few hours ago from a Pontifical High Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney.

Cardinal George Pell was the celebrant. Many people were taking pics so there should be shots appearing on the net soon I guess.

My sister came along for the first time to a Latin Mass and loved it! She is thinking of taking her husband and children to a Solemn Mass that is nearby her place on Sunday morning here www.maternalheart.org.

I had the opportunity to go to Mass there last Sunday morning, and after Communion was the sweetest thing I have ever experienced at Mass in my life. It was breathtaking. It was also the 29th anniversary of me making my first Communion.
 
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I’ve never seen a Dialogue Mass celebrated in my diocese, nor heard of one in the surrounding area. Are they still celebrated? shrugs Beats me.
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We have one. I don’t like it. People shouldn’t have their noses in a missal during a solemn sacrifice.

However the problem is that we don’t have any trained altar boys who can speak Latin. It could be fixed, but only with great difficulty.
 
My local indult parish is strictly Low Mass. However, when I was a kid, the dialogue Mass was pretty much the norm for at least the 10 and 12 Masses on Sundays. There would be Solemn High Masses on important feast days, etc. The idea that the congregation didn’t know how to respond or had their noses stuck in their missals is just plain wrong. It is a myth. The congregation did respond in Latin plainsong where required.

The altar boy problem can be fixed really quick. I was allowed to study to become an altar boy at the end of third grade in 1959. Father worked with all of us one day a week for an hour over the course of the summer. Then we were turned over to the captains of our altar boy teams who worked with us throughout that next year.

Ask around and see if any of your male parishoners over 50 were altar boys when they were kids. It wouldn’t take me very long to refresh myself with the Latin or to remember the rubrics.
You may have resources that you haven’t considered.
 
It used to be mostly Low Mass with a sprinkling of Missa Cantata, but over the years it had grown to sung Mass nearly every week. In a mixed blessing, though, another pastor began saying the TLM within the area that had been served by my parish (we’re talking a hundred mile radius), and the split of the congregation to the locations most convenient for them resulted in the break-up of the choir, so we at my parish are back to Low Mass for the time being.

I attended my first and (so-far) only dialogue Mass at Notre Dame a few weeks ago and it wasn’t really my cup of tea. I realize that that really was a sort of logical and organic conclusion of the authentic liturgical movement, but after growing to love a quiet Low Mass and the freedom of responding or not with the choir during Sung Mass, I didn’t like the expectation of verbal participation in the dialogue Mass. It felt distracting, like I was being given busywork. What it actually felt like was going to a weekday NO. While I know that is just aesthetics and personal taste (especially since I normally sing all the dialogue parts - et cum spiritu tuo, habemus ad dominum, deo gratias, etc.), I’ll stay away from dialogue unless that’s the only TLM available. Once I’ve grown a bit I’ll try it out again.
 
Missa Cantata mostly or low Mass. High Mass and Pontifical High Mass are rare.
 
We attend a solumn High Mass.
Hoping for more variety in the future.

JAmes
 
Traditional Latin Mass only (not NO Mass in Latin): Missa canata with Asperges on Sundays. Missa cantata on feast days. Low Masses every day of the week. Solemn High Mass occasionally. I have never seen a dialogue Mass.
 
As we have the TLM in the Crypt at St. Vincent’s it is always a low Mass. I am looking forward to a High Mass in the Basilica some day. But, then they would have to put the altar back where it was meant to be and remove the table in the center.🤷
 
Low Mass every Sunday, but my pastor said he would start celebrating a Missa Cantata every Sunday in the near future.
 
We have two low masses-at 7:30 and 9, and a High Mass with a schola at 11. I went to the High Mass today, and I really do love it. The chant is so beautiful that it makes it easier to keep my focus where it should be.
 
For the moment we just have low mass. This year, we had a missa cantata with our parish’s schola cantorum from the 1st Sunday of Lent until Pentecost. They may be back in Advent. The previous organist left for a church in Canada, and hopefully his replacement will be in place in time for the schola to return then.
 
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