Thursday, October 24, 2013

Nearly three months and no Traditional Latin Mass in Rome

It is now nearly three months  and I have still to attend Holy Mass at the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary(Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunziata) ,Lungotevere, near the Vatican.I would attend the Traditional Latin Mass there on Sundays at 10.30 a.m.Mass was offered by priests of  the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. 
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There were many people who would attend Mass there in the Extraordinary Form and perhaps they still continue.The Novus Ordo Mass is held there in Italian or Latin.
 
I went to the church a few times to ask when would Tridentine Rite Mass resume and a young American friar would say that they still do not have permission and "it is in the hands of Our Lady".
 
Fr.Paolo FFI, the Rector at the church, applied for permission to offer the Traditional Latin Mass, about the time the new Apostolic Commissioner Fr.Fidenzio Volpi  was appointed.Permission has still not been granted.-Lionel Andrades

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