Monsignor Edward Dillon, vicar general has announced that the Tridentine Mass will be celebrated at Holy Spirit Church, Thursday, January 7. Father Michael Hogan has been assigned to celebrate the Mass.

The celebration of the Mass according to the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal will be at 6:30 p.m. Holy Spirit is located at 4465 Northside Drive in Atlanta.

Archbishop James P. Lyke, OFM, granted permission for the celebration under conditions authorized by Pope John Paul II and set forth by the Congregation for Divine Worship in 1984. The group petitioning the archdiocese for the liturgy is asked to meet at 6:10 p.m. at Holy Spirit to discuss the conditions under which the permission has been granted.

The letter of 1984 announcing authorization of the Tridentine Mass said the Pope wished to be responsive to the faithful who remain attached to the so-called Tridentine Rite. The principal condition for permission to celebrate the Tridentine Mass is that "there must be unequivocal, even public, evidence that the people petitioning have no ties with those who impugn the lawfulness and doctrinal soundness of the Roman Missal promulgated in 1970 by Pope Paul VI."

The rubrics of the revised Roman Missal of 1962 call for the Mass to be said silently in Latin by the priest and Scripture readings are in Latin.

Initially the Mass will be offered every Thursday.

Monsignor Dillon said the need, location and time for celebrating the Tridentine Mass will be continually reviewed.