En helt fersk prests høytidelige messe

Shawn Tribe på NLM-bloggen skriver om bildet over:

It is always encouraging (never mind interesting) to hear of newly ordained diocesan priests who very quickly demonstrate their interest in the liturgical patrimony of the Church by means of the use of the more ancient liturgical books. These phenomena, if that is the right word for it, seems to rather quickly becoming more and more of a routine occurrence. For any of those who are either interested in the propagation of that patrimony, whether through the usus antiquior or through the reform of the reform, this can only be good news.

Two such examples came to my attention in the past day alone, one of which I will share with you today. In this instance, I refer you to Father Pablo Santa Maria, who was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Vancouver on May 26th and who celebrated his first Mass according to the usus antiquior one week later.

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With a many or most current seminarians reportedly enthusiastic about the EF, I suspect it won’t be too long before a first solemn high Mass is not an unusual phenomenon. But, even as a TLM devotee, I wonder whether the greater significance of this is not for the EF but for more proper and traditional celebration of the OF. …

… I agree. Up here in the greater NYCity area the OF masses at a number of churches I’ve visited are significantly more dignified, with a decidedly traditional ceremonial, Mass ad orientem, sung English or Latin Propers, instead of hymns, but with a partially sung canon becoming more widespread. … Pope Benedict and the archbishops of New York have had a profound influence in ways and in places which would have seemed unimaginable when the pope was elected in 2006.