Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

Father John has an interesting story about the Transalpine Redemptorists, a group affiliated with the SSPX . Very interesting...

The issue of the change to the petitions within the Extraordinary Rite made by Pope Benedict XVI in the Passion Service of Good Friday has now abated a bit. Sandro Magister of Chiesa.com reports on some interesting developments as reported today . Some leading representatives of the Jewish world had protested vociferously against the new formulation ordered by Benedict XVI for the prayer for the Jews in the liturgy of Good Friday according to the ancient rite. An authoritative response has now come to these protests, in a note published in the latest edition of "La Civiltà Cattolica," the magazine of the Rome Jesuits printed after line-by-line scrutiny by the Vatican secretariat of state. Moreover, in recent days important personalities of the Catholic Church and the Jewish world have spoken out in defense of the new formulation: from one side, archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the pontifical council of culture, and from the other, rabbi Jacob Neusner (in the ...

Catholic World News prints the revised text for the Good Friday prayer which is published officially in the February 6th edition of L'Osservatore Romano . The revised prayer, which has been expected for some time, now reads: Oremus et pro Iudaeis. Ut Deus et Dominus noster illuminet corda eorum, ut agnoscant Iesum Christum salvatorem omnium hominum. Oremus. Flectamus genua. Levate. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui vis ut omnes homines salvi fiant et ad agnitionem veritatis veniant, concede propitius, ut plenitudine gentium in Ecclesiam Tuam intrante omnis Israel salvus fiat. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen See the full story on Catholic World News . Update: More here on Rorate Caeli .