The Sunday readings are printed in full in the bulletin. For our visitors, missalettes which contain all of the Ordinary texts side-by-side in Latin and English are available in the pews and will help with following the Mass.Joseph are friendly and welcoming, so feel free to ask questions about the Catholic faith as well as elements of the Latin Mass that may be confusing or different from your regular Mass experience. In that edict, Pope Benedict gave the “Novus Ordo” the name “Ordinary Form” and the old Mass the name “Extraordinary Form”-though it is also known as the “Traditional Latin Mass” (TLM), the Latin “Usus Antiquior,” the “Tridentine Mass,” and the “Rite of St. But in 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II encouraged the continuation of the older way, and in 2007, his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, issued a motu proprio (a type of papal edict) called Summorum Pontificum, giving every priest the authority to say the old Mass, even without permission from his bishop. The result was a new way of saying the Mass, called the “Novus Ordo” (“new order”), that became the norm. In 1963, the bishops attending the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) approved the idea of revising the Mass that had been said for centuries all around the world. Do not feel out of place if you are not familiar with Latin (you will see most people reading a translation) or if the actions at the altar look different- this same Mass was known by Roman Catholics around the world for centuries! You are not alone! All over the globe people are discovering the treasure that has been at the heart of the Catholic Liturgy since the first century.
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