The Traditional mass returned to the Dominican Church of St. Mary for the first time since the 1960s for the feast of Christ the King. The congregation filled the church and the music by the choir of the St. Gregory society was, as usual, close to perfection. This was a one-off event; let us pray that this mass leads to a more permanent presence of the Traditional mass at St. Mary’s.
It was a remarkable weekend for the Traditional Mass in Connecticut. On this glorious Autumn Sunday Solemn masses were celebrated in Norwalk and New Haven; sung traditional masses were celebrated in Waterbury and Moodus. A magnificent solemn high Mass was celebrated the day before in Stamford. Some of these masses involved the same personnel; a further solemn High Mass planned for Stamford on this feast had to be deferred simply because all trained servers were involved in one or more of the other masses. And these are only the masses that I know of!
As remarkable as the number of these services is the extraordinary level of sophistication in the ceremony, the music, the preaching etc. It is no exaggeration to say that the experience today of the Traditional Roman Rite at these services far surpasses what a congregation of a “normal” parish heard and saw prior to Vatican II.
Father Paul Keller, O.P. spoke on Summorum Pontificum at the reception following the mass.
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