Dennis Martin wrote:
>
> It has come to my attention that a message I postd to the list several
> months back was misleading. I no longer remember exactly the context
> of the original message, but since people in the know have come across
> my message in the Medieval Religion archives, I wanted to inset this
> correction for the record:
>
> I stated that in some parishes in the United States, the Mass was
> never celebrated in the vernacular, and cited St.Agnes Parish in St.
> Paul, Minnesota, as an example.
>
> It would have been more accurate to say "never celebrated exclusively
> in the vernacular"--the point being that an unbroken practice of
> celebrating Mass in Latin was sustained there, from before Vatican II
> to the present, but that Mass was also celebrated in the vernacular
> after Vatican II.
>
> Here endeth the retractio. Mea culpa.
>
> Dennis Martin
Dennis et al.
I happen to be familiar with this particular parish, and I know the
Pastor. The Mass is indeed beautiful there, English or Latin. The Latin
Mass is a combination of choral and congregational. The church building
looks as if it were brought over stone by stone from Austria. (St. Agnes
is/was the German parish in St. Paul, Minnesota.) They also celebrate
Vespers and Benediction in Latin every Sunday afternoon.
I would like to further clarify, though, that the Latin Mass currently
said is the "New Mass" observing the minor modifications brought about
by Vatican II, not the "Tridentine" Mass of the 1962 or earlier Missal.
Here is the URL for St. Agnes R.C. Church:
http://www.catholic.org/stagnes/
Stephen M. Collins
Houston, Texas
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