![]() ![]() It’s the language of the Church, which allows us to pray a verbal prayer without distraction. “Latin was the perfect language for the Mass. As reported by the site ChurchPOP, here is Mother Angelica on the Latin Mass: In the end, Mother’s own words reveal just how strongly she felt about the traditional liturgy. ![]() For many faithful Catholics, these televised liturgies were their first look at the sacred beauty of the Latin Mass.Īs with most mystics and saints (small s for now), Mother Angelica recognized the power of the sacred liturgy. It’s also easy to forget just how supportive of the Latin Mass EWTN was in the years immediately following Pope Benedict’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum in 2007.īeginning with a televised Extraordinary Form Mass for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in September, 2007 (offered by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter-pictured above), the network would go on to air a total of ten traditional masses between 2007-2009. As it turned out, many bishops simply did not want forty million plus television households seeing Masses offered ad orientem on a regular basis. Mother was right, as she usually was, but Bishop Foley eventually won the dispute on appeal to Rome. Some may recall that Mother butted heads with her local ordinary (Bishop David Foley) back in 1999 following his decree forbidding the offering of the Mass ad orientem in his diocese. While many are familiar with her no nonsense persona and larger than life accomplishments, her love for the traditional Mass isn’t as well known. It has been one year since Mother Angelica, the feisty Poor Clare nun who founded EWTN, passed away at the age of 92.
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