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Documents of Interest

      To all those Catholic faithful who feel attached to some previous liturgical and disciplinary forms of the Latin tradition, I wish to manifest my will to facilitate their ecclesial communion by means of the necessary measures to guarantee respect for their rightful aspirations. In this matter I ask for the support of the bishops and of all those engaged in the pastoral ministry in the Church. ...moreover, respect must everywhere be shown for the feelings of all those who are attached to the Latin liturgical tradition, by a wide and generous application of the directives already issued some time ago by the Apostolic See, for the use of the Roman Missal according to the typical edition of 1962 

     I greet you cordially, my dear pilgrims, who have decided to come to Rome on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the motu proprio,in order to affirm and renew your faith in Christ and your loyalty to the Church. Dear friends, your presence around the "Successor of Peter to whom it falls primarily to watch over the unity of the Church" (Vatican I, Dogmatic Constitution, Pastor Aeternus) is of particular significance.

     ... I invite the Bishops also, fraternally, to understand and to have a renewed pastoral attention for the faithful attached to the Old Rite and, on the threshold of the Third Millennium, to help all Catholics to live the celebration of the Holy Mysteries with a devotion which may be true nourishment for their spiritual life and which may be a source of peace.

     Entrusting you to the intercession of the Virgin Mary, perfect model of the sequela Christi and Mother of the Church, dear Brothers and Sisters, I grant the Apostolic Benediction to you as well as to all those dear to you.

Quattuor Abhinc Annos. The Original Tridentine Papal Indult 

Sacrosanctum Concilium. The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of the Second Vatican Council, December 4, 1963

Mediator Dei. The 1947 Encyclical of Pope Pius XII on the liturgy.

The Council of Trent on the Mass. Session 22, Doctrine on the Sacrifice of the Mass.

The Council of Trent on the Mass. Session 22, Canons on the Sacrifice of the Mass.

Quo Primum. The Perpetual Indult of Pope St. Pius V insuring permission to celebrate the Traditional Roma n Rite Mass .

Introivimus ad Altare Dei. An editorial from the Brandsma Review on the 10^th Anniversary Pilgrimage.

A Pilgrim Reports from Rome. Chuck Lowry’s account of the pilgrimage.

Cardinal Ratzinger’s address. The complete text of his conference paper.

Michael Davies comments. The comments by Michael Davies, on Cardinal Ratzinger’s address.

Dom Gerard Calvet's comments. The comments made by Dom Gérard Calvet, Abbot of Sainte Madeleine du Barroux, on Cardinal Ratzinger’s address.

A Short History of The Roman Rite. Michael Davies’s compact history of the Traditional Roman Rite Mass and its evolution since the time of Christ.

Excerpts from Msgr. Klaus Gamber’s The Reform of the Roman Liturgy: Its Problems and Background. Key quotes from this noted historian of the liturgy.

Liturgy of the Mass. Fr. Adran Fortescue's Catholic Encyclopedia article.

Theology of the Liturgy. Cardinal Ratzinger’s lecture delivered during the Journees liturgiques de Fontgombault, 22-24 July 2001.

Recollections of a Vatican II Peritus. Cardinal Stickler juxtaposes the Council’s recommendations and the new Mass that we actually got. 

The Attractiveness of the Tridentine Mass. Cardinal Stickler’s address to a New York conference extolling the Traditional Roman Rite Mass.

The Role of the Celebrant in Mediator Dei. Cardinal Stickler’s address to the annual meeting of Una Voce International, Rome, 16 November 1997.

Your movement has legitimacy. Cardinal Stickler in an address to the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales in 1992.

We are surely on the wrong path. Cardinal Ratzinger’s comments about the liturgy in an interview by Peter Seewald.

Cardinal Mayer's letter to the American bishops. A letter urging the wide and generous application of Ecclesia Dei tat the Poe had called for.

Cardinal Mayer's CIEL address. His address to the 1999 conference of the Centre International d'Etudes Liturgiques praising their scholarly work on liturgy.

"The Old Mass," James R. Lothian and Indira H. Sweeny, a revision of an article published in the Homiletic and Pastoral Review, October 2003

A Priest´s First Tridentine Mass. Fr. Stephen Shield’s eloquent paen to the Traditional Latin Mass.

Sermon by Dom Gerard Calvet. Delivered in Chartres Cathedral in 1995 at the close of the 1995 Pentecoist pilgrimage.

The Church in Collapse. Michael Davies’s analysis of recent trends.

Edmund Burke and the Debate about the Liturgy. James R. Lothian applies Burke’s thinking on how institutions develop to the liturgy.

Phony Ecumenism Leads to Liturgical Confusion. The relation between indifferentism and bad liturgy.

Novus Ordo Missae -The Record After 30 Years. An updated version of James R. Lothian’s statistical study of Mass attendance from the Homiletic and Pastoral Review.

Liturgical Peace. An address by Fr. John W. Mole, O.M.I. to the Pro Fide Forum, London, England May 4, 2000.

Assault on the Roman Rite Fr. John Mole, O.M.I. 

The Afflicted Church Of God. Fr. John Mole’s discourse on the liturgy and the Traditional Mass movement in light of Ecclesia Dei.

Why the Mass? Fr. William G. Most’s scripture-based analysis of the Mass.

A Short Critical Study of the New Order of Mass (The "Ottaviani Intervention") A critique of the Novus Ordo, commissioned by Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci and presented to Pope Paul VI just after its introduction in 1969.

Was Dom Gueranger right after all? Fr. Hugh S. Thwaites, S.J. suggests that Dom Gueranger may well have been right when he said that to change people’s religion all you needed to do was change their books of worship.

The Crisis in the Sacred Liturgy. Fr. Joseph Wilson’s analysis of the current problem.

Our Not So Glorious Selves. Fr. Joseph F. Wilson on the crises-- litiugical and otherwise--of the Catholic Church in America.

Cardinal Ratzinger Tries to Exorcise the Liturgical Zeitgeist. James R. Lothian’s review article on Cardinal Ratzinger’s The Spirit of the Liturgy.

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Looking at the Liturgy. A review of Fr. Aiden Nichol’s scholarly account of the liturgical reform by Fr. Ephraim Chifley OP

Review of The Reform of the Roman Liturgy. Fr. Robert A. Skeris on Msgr. Klaus Gamber’s overview of liturgical history.

International  Una Voce Federation. Michael Davies’ descriptive history of FIUV.

Guide to the Celebration of Low Mass. A booklet for priests wishing to learn how to say the traditional Mass.

How to Serve the Old Mass. A small booklet on serving the traditional Mass, courtesy of the Priestly Association of St. John Fisher.

Standing, Sitting, Kneeling. A brief guide for the congregation at the traditional Mass.

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