A reader kindly sent me the following notice from the Latin Mass Society
The Latin Mass Society is organising a residential training conference at Merton College, Oxford from Tuesday 28 – Thursday 30 August 2007 for priests ordained within the last ten years to learn the Traditional Latin Rite. Information packs have already been sent to over 400 priests.
There will be three days of intensive practical training sessions, guided by priests who regularly celebrate the Traditional Mass, and supported by lectures on the Latin, history and doctrine of the Mass. There will also be a full schedule of daily Traditional Mass, Lauds, Vespers and Benediction.
The conference has been designed for priests who have little or no previous experience of the Traditional Rite, and a knowledge of Latin is not essential. Most of the tuition will focus on celebrating the Low Mass. It is planned that a follow up conference in 2008 will focus on the High Mass. The conference will conclude with a magnificent Pontifical High Mass celebrated by a visiting bishop.
Julian Chadwick, Chairman of the LMS said, "Interest in the Traditional Latin Rite has burgeoned under Benedict XVI’s pontificate, especially among the younger priests and faithful. In a service to the Church, the Latin Mass Society will provide growing opportunities over the next few years for priests to experience the reverence and devotion of the Traditional Rite. We see it as an integral part of the re-evangelisation of England and Wales, and know that a number of bishops are quietly appreciative of our efforts."
Full details of the Oxford Traditional training conference are available from the LMS at 11-13 Macklin Street, London WC2B 5NH; telephone 020 7404 7284.
4 comments:
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter will be giving Latin Mass training this summer at their seminary in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Do not forget the training of Altar Servers. They are essential in a proper Tridentine Mass
One of the good effects of the Motu Proprio, mentioned by a commenter, is that the normalisation of the Classical Rite in parishes. I have two young lads now trained to serve Low Mass and getting experience at High Mass when the opportunity arises
This is a brilliant initiative from the LMS. God Bless them abundantly for helping us all, through the Latin Mass, to focus our attention more deeply on Christ, on the 'divine and spiritual', rather than on creating ever more 'entertainment based liturgies' that focus on man. This must be a real body-blow to the devil, whose orchestrations over the last forty years have led to such a decimation in Mass attendance, a dreadful lack of reverence among many of the 'faithful' that do attend Mass and a continuity of ignorance of colossal proportions among the faithful fuelled by a lack of solid Catholic leadership and formation in so many of our homes, schools, parishes and diocese.
We will keep all the Priests attending the training conference in our prayers. Yes, and we need good solid altar serving training in the Latin Rite for boys and young men. How many vocations were 'forged' in the old days, serving at the altar of the Lord.
Finally Fr Tim, I think it would be a good idea to have some short Latin Mass 'training' for us ordinary parishioners who perhaps never attended Latin Masses or were very young when the vernacular took over. I still find it confusing and distracting when the laiety in the pews with all good intent 'do their own thing', some kneel, others sit or stand at different times, some respond in Latinburble, others say nothing while many genuflect rapidly and recite the Latin with the Priest, or respond with the altar server!
God Bless
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