Kommende søndag skal jeg feire min første tradisjonelle latinske messe – privat, med en liten gruppe ministranter og interesserte. Jeg har kommet til slutten av min forberedelsesperiode, og har lært mye. Mitt inntrykk nå er at den nye og den gamle messen egentlig ikke er så forskjellige, men siden vi som feirer den nye messen, aldri har lært noe av det gamle liturgiske tradisjonen, gjør vi ofte ting feil. For selv om man feirer messen vendt mot folket, skal presten i svært liten grad se på folket – men det gjør mange prester likevel. Pave Benedikt har prøvd å løse dette problemet (på en nokså forsiktig måte) ved å sette et stort krusifiks på alteret rett foran presten, slik at han får tydeligere fokus på Kristus.
Jeg kommer tilbake med bilder og flere inntrykk fra den gamle messen om ikke lenge, men nå vil jeg peke på at en tradisjonell latinske messe også ble feiret i en forstad til Berlin nylig (førtse offentlige TLM siden 1969. Se bildet under og en interessant beskrivelse av hva som skjedde – fra Rorate cæli.
Today we had the first usus antiquior Mass in our parish in southwest Berlin (Schlachtensee), Holy Twelve Apostles. We are happy to report that it was a great success.
We had a missa cantata, with the parish’s own schola singing. The Church was built in 1954, thus for ad orientem celebration, but with a freestanding altar. Therefore, there never were any wreckovations, and we only had to carry away the ambo, put the sedilia were they belong, and redecorate the altar for ad orientem with the original Cross and six candlesticks. The altar cards had been given to us by the transitional deacon of our parish, who was obviously very supportive.
We had proceeded as foreseen by Summorum Pontificum. Two other young Catholics from our parish and myself had begun to collect signatures for an usus extraordinarius Mass in our Parish after September 14th. The list lay ready for signature after the Masses of one Sunday, and without being properly announced at all of them (we have a subsidiary priest who is very opposed to the TLM and is more of a «spirit of Vatican II» man), we got 40 signatures from parishioners only.
In sight of this, our parish priest, a very pious Salesian, but who was himself ordained in the early 1970s, without being personally in favor of it, but being a true pastor of souls, granted the Mass.
Since we wanted to demonstrate that the TLM is not something for elderly people only, we looked for a young priest to celebrate it, and found it in the chaplain («Kaplan») of the neighboring parish (his blog here), who had for a long time been drawn to the traditional rite, and learned it with the Institute of St. Philip Neri.
We had printed leaflets and distributed them after Mass last Sunday. But since the German Bishops ruled that the TLM may not replace a regularly scheduled novus ordo Mass (which has of course no base in Summorum Pontificum), we had to choose the early morning, 8:30 a.m., and feared this might deter some people from attending.
However, when entering the Church this morning for the Asperges, there were, together with the servers in the schola, 120 people, which is, for this time of morning in a suburban (i.e. not central by any means), quite a lot. Everything went very well, and everyone was delighted afterwards. There were old and young people who had been waiting for this a long time, as well as young and middle aged people who experienced the TLM for the first time and liked it very much. This was the first public Sunday TLM in a parish Church in Berlin since 1969.
Gratulerer – det virker som om du har hatt en fin prosess! Du vil sikkert berike mange! Jeg er i Stavanger søndag 16. desember, men så raskt igjen er det kanskje ingen TLM.
Vet noen om når det planlegges at det skal feires tradisjonell latinsk messe i en av de katolske kirkene i Osloområdet.
Are,
Jeg kan svare litt på det.
Send meg en mail på johnteigen1@hotmail.com
Trond, dette kan vel være av interesse for flere?
Andreas,
Alt kan ikke snakkes om i offentlige fora før det er offentlig… Send meg gjerne en mail du også!
Takk for tilbudet! Siden jeg bor i Oslo-området, kan jeg vente til ting blir offentlig.
Kommer det snart oversikt over tilbudet i Oslo ? Jeg bør helst, av private grunner, vite dette i meget god tid på forhånd.
Du trenger det sikkert ikke, men lykke til, pastor.