Traditional Feast of the Epiphany Solemn High Mass in the Classical Roman ('Tridentine') Rite
Birmingham Oratory
(at the High Altar)
8pm - Tuesday, January 6th 2009
Following the success of the Birmingham Oratory's Solemn High Mass for the feast of the Epiphany 2 years ago (excess of 200 in attendence), the Oratory Fathers will once again celebrate a traditional High Mass.
Most Catholics in England & Wales are forced now to celebrate the Epiphany on the nearest Sunday. Here is the perfect opportunity to observe this important feast of Our Lord on the day it is properly intended. Tailored Mass books and full translations are provided, which will make it perfect for newcomers to the Tridentine Rite.
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Most Catholics in England & Wales are forced now to celebrate the Epiphany on the nearest Sunday. Here is the perfect opportunity to observe this important feast of Our Lord on the day it is properly intended. Tailored Mass books and full translations are provided, which will make it perfect for newcomers to the Tridentine Rite.
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'Valley of Tears'
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 100 percent.
If one is going to shift it, shift it to the Sunday following not before. But what do I know? :-)
I would like to also see the regular offering of the Extraordinary Form in the Vernacular - by doing that I believe it will create additional interest; interest by others opposed to it because: "I don't understand Latin, it's a dead language anyway, yada, yada, yada".
The beauty of the language, wording, prayers, gestures, etc - so much poetry and majesty.
Even when done in the Vernacular, certain prayers should remain in Latin as well: Sanctus, Pater Noster, Gloria.
Once people realize that Latin isn't so foreign and 'dead' it will be appreciated more and more. Too many years have passed when it was normative, and I believe in order to be appreciated by the multitude; it has to be brought back in gradually.
Some of us have already accepted it wholeheartedly, the others; well they need a little help in order to appreciate the 'awesome-ness, and majesty, and beauty, and poetry of the formerly normative Rite of the Roman Catholic Church.
- my Widow's mite worth.
Thank you. tje