Web resources offered to help priests with Tridentine Mass

Published: 2007-09-14

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- With the new norms for celebrating the Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal taking effect Sept. 14, a religious community based in Chicago is using very modern means to disseminate information about how to celebrate the Mass commonly known as the Tridentine rite. The Mass from the Roman Missal in use since 1970 remains the ordinary form of the Mass, while celebration of the Tridentine Mass is the extraordinary form. The Canons Regular of St. John Cantius are offering an online tutorial for priests on the rubrics for celebrating the Mass in its extraordinary form. Pope Benedict XVI authorized an expanded use of the rite in his July apostolic letter, "Summorum Pontificum," and set Sept. 14 as the date of its implementation. "We hope that this tutorial, which provides a study of the rubrics in a multimedia format, will assist priests in praying the Mass of the ages with deeper reverence and love, so that the faithful attracted to this venerable rite might more profoundly enter into the eucharistic sacrifice," said Father C. Frank Phillips, superior of the community, in a letter on the Web site, www.sanctamissa.org.

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