Ite, Missa Est

Patrick Archbold at Summorum Pontificum found a great news story. The National Catholic Register has a story by Valerie Schmalz entitled, "Ite, Missa Est. Interest in ‘Extraordinary Form’ of the Mass Growing on Campus." Here is just a bit:

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“The Mass is the Mass, but the traditional Latin Mass seems more sacred,” said Leah Turner, a junior at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa. “It seems to capture the tradition of the Church more.”

Notre Dame, Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif., Christendom College in Front Royal, Va., and St. Vincent College are among the colleges that began to offer the Mass of Blessed John XXIII shortly after the Summorum Pontificum’s effective date of Sep. 14. Ave Maria University in Naples, Fla., plans to offer it soon and Franciscan University of Steubenville will offer its first such Mass on March 30.

Summorum Pontificum, which the Pope issued on his own initiative or motu proprio, said that the Mass according to the Missal of 1962 must be offered as long as a “stable” group of the faithful requests it. The only exception is during the Easter Triduum.

Read here for a great and heartening news story.