I had the privilege of attending the Chrism Mass this past Monday. It was a beautiful celebration of the Mass at a awe inspiring parish in Mankato, MN. St.'s Peter and Paul is.....well.....words cannot describe what I think to know that the Diocese actually has a Parish that looks like this. WOW. The order they have there is also something that I could never have imagined. Holy, Orthodox, priests that are really bringing it back. Great Liturgies, solid formation, good old fashioned Catholicism. Great. They even have a private minor seminary that is providing wonderful faith formation to young men considering the priesthood. If their Order is still there in 8-9 years, the Boy is getting shipped there for High School Seminary. Latin, cassocks, Sisters in HABITS, the list goes on. AND - they celebrate the Extraordinary Form (not for the Chrism Mass, can't get too carried away with rad trad liturgical awesomeness can you?)
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This is my parish. I was there that night singing in the choir. Pray for us, we are not perfect and there's a ways to go with our liturgy. What you saw was a special occasion. This morning as Mass there were terrible modern songs sung to piano. But we have cassocks and a fair amount of peity....yes we have it better than many but its NOT PERFECT. Slowly we improve...slowly.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful church,,sad that there is a novus ordo table rather than the use of only the high altar, for the traditional Latin Mass.
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