Joy, frustration and humor: reactions to Vatican law change on lectors, altar servers In the wake of ... elevates the Eucharist during a traditional Latin Mass July 18, 2021, at St. Josaphat ...

Traditionalist Catholics have urged Pope Leo XIV to ease his predecessor's restrictions on the Latin Mass, insisting the move was based on misunderstandings and is hampering a Western Church revival.

A new generation of young altar servers captivated by the solemn rituals of Latin Mass is mastering the traditional rite in growing numbers in the Boston archdiocese as the liturgy makes a ...

where her three sons have acted as altar servers for the priest. 'It connects us as Catholics to something deeper.' — Lea Hansen, of Babylon, on the Latin Mass. Henry and Lea Hansen, who live in ...

He learned how to serve as a master of ceremonies for it, which means he's the adult male altar server who responds in Latin on behalf of the congregation during the Mass and helps direct the ...

The Latin Mass may help many people feel closer to God ... Communion banner on a pew or dressed in a lace-adorned altar server alb and swinging a thurible. The Latin Mass might feel more reverent ...

The Latin mass you must admit is more reverent than ... Robert Quigley, Brooklyn, N.Y.: It is too bad that you were such a sloppy altar server. Here in Brooklyn, we studied the Latin, knew what ...

Priests and altar servers filed out of the church when ... Besides the orientation of the priest, the pre-Vatican II Mass, all in Latin, diverges from the order and substance of some prayers ...

An altar server lights the candles before a traditional Latin Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Covington on Friday, July 16, 2021. (Photo by Brett Duke, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune | The New ...

Also, in a leaked set of liturgical norms that appear to have been written before Francis died, Martin opposed "hybrid liturgies" in which older traditions are blended into the modern Novus Ordo Mass.

Latin Mass societies are looking at options to bring ... as well as all-male altar servers, and the reception of the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling at a railing. The changes go well ...

his servers are still swinging censers, and his parishioners are translating his chants in their missals. The Latin Mass lingers on at St. Joseph. The mystery and the reverence that parishioners ...