Hi Michael

I was in Rome recently and attended some Traditional Masses. I was not terribly impressed.

However I did attend a new rite Mass celebrated by the Pope in Latin, with the singing of the old familiar hymns and it was very moving, devotional and uplifting.

God bless,


NoelFitz.
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Hi Ipioch

Thank you for your email.

The point I was making was that I was very moved by the Novus Ordo Mass in Latin celebrated by the Pope.

A Mass is a Mass, but a valid and lawful Mass can be boring.

God bless,


NoelFitz.
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NoelFitz, If the Pope, with all the liturgical resources of the Vatican, can't celebrate an impressive Novus Ordo Mass, then nobody could.  Apart from anything else, his own holiness and the dignity and reverence with which he conducts any liturgy are unparalleled.  However NO Mass celebrated with dignity and reverence are in my experience extremely scarce.  I'm sorry you were disappointed with the Traditional Masses you attended.  It is quite possible for those to be celebrated badly too, though not nearly as easy as with the NO because the personality of the celebrant is so much less obtrusive, the rubrics are more strict and there are fewer distractions.

But the point is that each rite is equally valid (the Tridentine Rite was never prohibited by the Church, though it is in practice suppressed by most bishops).  Let's have the motu proprio, and let priests and people choose freely for themselves.