The Boston Globe: Latin Mass finds home

Erica Noonan files this story from the Boston Globe on March 2nd.

Stepping into the Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Parish church in Newton at Sunday noontime feels like stepping backward in time.

Hundreds pray solemnly in Latin, rising and kneeling frequently, as reverent Gregorian chants echo off the sanctuary's soaring stained-glass windows.

The air is thick with incense, women wear chapel veils, and everyone - parishioners, altar servers, and the Rev. Charles J. Higgins - prays facing the church altar and the large crucifix hanging above.

This is the Tridentine Mass - known more familiarly as the Latin Mass - that for 40 years was an endangered species of worship in the Roman Catholic Church.

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