Where do priests go to learn how to celebrate the Latin Mass?

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How do priests, who are interested in celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass, go about learning to do so in 2012? Following the rubrics, in Latin, faithfully, and with the right understanding and disposition, and training acolytes seems complex.

Are there officially approved training programs that a priest must complete? Who teaches it? About how long does it take to learn to celebrate the Latin Mass? Must priests be approved, licensed, or tested by some designated authority before they may celebrate the Latin Mass? Or is instruction generally informal through such means as self-study, on-the-job training, mentoring, etc.?

I’m just an interested layman.

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As for current priests I do not know. I’m pretty sure they can learn from someone else.
As for seminarians, I’m pretty sure most orthdox Catholic seminaries will teach a priest how to say both forms of the Roman rite.
 
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How do priests, who are interested in celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass, go about learning to do so in 2012? Following the rubrics, in Latin, faithfully, and with the right understanding and disposition, and training acolytes seems complex.

Don’t know about the priests. About the acolytes though, my brothers and cousins were most all of them alcolytes back in the day. It took a few sessions with Sister and/or Father and they were doing the Latin responses pretty well. One of the Latin prayers was pretty hard for them to memorize because of the difficult pronunciation but I forget which one.

At that time, many of the daily Mass attendees were elderly ladies mostly. The elder “sport” in those days was managing to be at Mass the day one of the new little guys dropped the huge book in transferring it from side to side of the altar. My guess is hugs and cookies for those unfortunate ones after Mass! Thankfully, I think the book is smaller now. At any rate, if those guys made it, it probably is not so difficult to train acolytes!🙂
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Joseph said:
How do priests, who are interested in celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass, go about learning to do so in 2012? Following the rubrics, in Latin, faithfully, and with the right understanding and disposition, and training acolytes seems complex.

Are there officially approved training programs that a priest must complete? Who teaches it? About how long does it take to learn to celebrate the Latin Mass? Must priests be approved, licensed, or tested by some designated authority before they may celebrate the Latin Mass? Or is instruction generally informal through such means as self-study, on-the-job training, mentoring, etc.?

I’m just an interested layman.

Thank you!
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Learning to offer Mass according to the Usus Antiquior isn’t brain surgery. Any priest with the proper disposition can learn to do it with a minimum of effort. I personally know several who taught themselves.

Instruction is available from several sources, including the Canons Regular of Prémontré (aka the Norbertines), and the Canons Regular of St John Cantius. There are also instructional videos available form those sources, among others, as well as the SSPX.
 
The FSSP offers training seminars. Also, many FSSP priests are willing to teach priests how to offer Mass in the EF.

I know my friend taught himself how to say the EF Low Mass on his own.
 
A couple more links:

Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest –
institute-christ-king.org/latin-mass-resources/latin-mass-training/

Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter –
fssptraining.org/

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amsjj 🙂

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