You don't need a dispensation to celebrate the Novus Ordo Mass in
Latin; my parish does it every week. And no _dispensation_ is needed
for the Tridentine rite either, since 1984, when John Paul II granted
permission subject to the approval of the local bishop; in 1988 he
explicitly called for its widespread celebration. Normally
permission is granted on an ongoing basis for particular parishes; in
a few cases Tridentine rite special parishes are emerging.
Eighty-five dioceses in the US and 10 in Canada have bishops who have
granted such permission for at least a monthly Tridentine rite Mass,
in most of these dioceses is it authorized somewhere on a weekly,
occasionally even daily basis. In my parish, where it is celebrated
twice each Sunday, most holy days, and once at mid-week, it attracts
a diverse group cutting across all age, social and economic groups,
including many young families with children.
More information is available from the Coalition in Support of
Ecclesia Dei, P.O.Box 2071, Glenview, IL 60025-6071.
This is not irrelevant to medieval-religion. Although it was not one
of my reasons for beginning to attend Latin Mass (Novus Ordo), I have
noticed after five years of regular attendance a decided improvement
in my Latin ability in some intangible areas--a kind of fluency and
ear-sense that I could never have derived from "book-learning." The
vocabulary, of course, is much more limited than I face in my
scholarly work, but the feel for syntax and accentuation gained from
memorizing the liturgy (which one does after a few years of consistent
hearing) is significant.
Dennis Martin
>>> "Susan Carroll-Clark" <[log in to unmask]> 07/25 6:33 PM
>>>
Greetings!
>I have another summer diversion: find a catholic priest, after the
Great
>Vatican Council, using the latin for the liturgy.
More common these days than you might think--dispensations are
regularly
granted for regular services in Latin, if there seems to be a demand
for it.
You can probably find a Latin mass in most larger towns in the US and
Canada
with a decent Catholic population these days.
Susan Carroll-Clark
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