The Traditional Mass in Latin is offered by the Canons Regular Monday Through Saturday at 7 a.m.
 

     The Tridentine Mass takes its name from the Council of Trent (1545-63), under the watchful eye of Pope St. Pius V. The "Tridentine Rite" is, therefore, more properly called the Ancient or Traditional Roman Rite. The last edition of its missal was published in 1962.

     The traditional Roman Rite differs from the new rite -- the 1969 Novus Ordo. This “new Mass” omits about  70 percent of the traditional Mass prayers. Most consider the traditional Latin Mass to be much more formal, more dignified.

     It’s emphasis is on the sacrifice of Jesus and the recognition of the “true presence” of Jesus—Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity—in the Holy Eucharist. The entire Mass focuses on the Consecration of the Body and Blood and on reception of Christ in Holy Communion. This is represented in the photo at the right above.

    The priest and the faithful face forward to the altar...and to God. The pictures to the left show this orientation at various stages in the Mass.

     The Traditional Latin Mass is the manner in which Catholics worshiped for well over 1,000 years.  For those over the age of 40, it is the Mass of their youth.   For those too young to remember incense filled churches, Gregorian chant, and the reverent silence at Mass, the Tridentine rite offers a return to a profound manner of worship.   

     In the past 10 years, the availability of the Latin Mass has increased dramatically.  In 1988, our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, in his Apostolic Letter Ecclesia Dei announced to the world his desire that the Traditional Latin Mass be made available to all who desire it:

"To all those Catholic faithful who feel attached to some previous liturgical and disciplinary forms of the Latin tradition, I wish to manifest my will to facilitate their ecclesial communion by means of the necessary measures to guarantee respect for their rightful aspirations.  In this matter I ask support of the Bishops and of all those engaged in the pastoral ministry of the Church.."

"...By virtue of my Apostolic authority I Decree... respect must everywhere be shown for the feelings of those who are attached to the Latin liturgical tradition, by a wide and generous application of the directives already issued some time ago by the Apostolic See, for the use of the Roman Missal ... of 1962"  --Pope John Paul II