Celebrating a Renaissance: Latin Mass at Boulder Parish
By Bob Tinder
More than a generation ago the Latin language disappeared from nearly all Catholic parishes. But on May 29 St. Martin de Porres Church in Boulder will celebrate the first anniversary of its monthly Latin Mass.
The liturgy, offered the last Sunday of each month at 10:30 a.m., is a Latin version of the Novus Ordo Mass, a format adopted in the 1970s by the Second Vatican Council and used daily in Catholic parishes worldwide. However, said Father Jayachandra, the language of each country is used instead of Latin, “causing most Catholics to believe that Latin was outlawed by the council.”
Why Latin, why now? “But Latin was never forbidden,” said Father Jayachandra. He noted that the funeral Masses for Pope John Paul II, and the installation liturgies for newly elected Benedict XVI, viewed by millions around the world, were conducted in Latin.“It’s still the official language of the Catholic Church,” he said. “And as the world recently witnessed, Latin liturgies are both spiritually and esthetically pleasing.”
Indeed, Latin was never outlawed and in fact has been greatly encouraged by the Vatican ever since Vatican II closed. Even though there has never been any evidence of forbidding Latin in the "Latin" liturgy, the "spirit of Vatican II" has been widely quoted as the authority to do away with the use of Latin as an intrigral part of the Mass. What is the real driving force behind removing all sense of the sacred from the sacrifice of the Mass? -- ed.
A major projectAccording to St. Martin’s music director, Aimee Milburn, deciding to offer the Mass was the easy part. Milburn coordinated a group of volunteers to plan the liturgy.
Personally I would be supprised that the decision to offer a Latin Mass was the easy part except that I know that this is Archbishop Chaput's territory. Unfortunately, many of us are left out in the cold when it comes to bishops and priests who are faithful to the wishes of the Church and who are more concerned with the welfare of the souls entrusted to them than the state of their operating funds. I hope that the good people of the Archdiocese of Denver thank God regularly for the wonderful graces he has granted them. -- ed.
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