Five Pontifical Latin liturgies will be celebrated over the next four weeks as Pope Leo XIV weighs up whether to continue restrictions imposed through Pope Francis’ 2021 apostolic letter ‘Traditionis Custodes.’
Despite continuing suppression of the traditional liturgy — which appears to be concentrated in some dioceses of the United States — four cardinals and an archbishop are to celebrate five traditional pontifical liturgies in Rome and the U.S. over the next month.
At 3 p.m. [Rome time] this coming Saturday, Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a pontifical Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica as part of the annual “Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage” attended by traditional Catholics from around the world. The cardinal last celebrated a pontifical Mass for the same event in the basilica in 2014.
As part of the pilgrimage, on Oct. 24 Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna will celebrate pontifical vespers in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Rome.
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The decision to allow the Mass to go ahead appears to have come from the top. “Clearly, [it was] because the Pope said: ‘Let them do it,’” Msgr. Marco Agostini, a papal master of ceremonies and a leading advocate of the traditional Mass in Rome, told The Washington Post Oct. 19.
U.S. Pontifical Liturgies
At noon on Nov. 1, the Solemnity of All Saints, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will celebrate a solemn pontifical Mass — the most complete and elaborate form of the traditional Mass — at Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco. The Mass will be part of a Eucharistic Rosary Congress, an initiative to help parishes begin seven days of adoration and hourly Rosaries before the Blessed Sacrament.
The following day, at 5 p.m., the prefect emeritus of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, will celebrate a pontifical Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes parish church in Philadelphia.
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Lastly, on Nov. 21, the prefect emeritus of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Robert Sarah, will celebrate pontifical vespers at the Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.
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The pontifical liturgies come at a time when Pope Leo XIV must decide whether to continue restricting some liturgies in the traditional Roman Rite in accordance with Traditionis Custodes or allow the freedom to celebrate them more in accordance with Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum.
Read the full post by Edward Pentin here.
