The Church of Our Saviour has stopped offering the Tridentine Mass. Nicholas Frankovich comments on its passing in today’s On the Square :
Mass according to the 1962 missal demands a knowledge of the Latin texts and of some fairly intricate rubrics. It requires training that most priests now lack. Fr. Rutler didn’t, and Father Robbins apparently does. Since August 1, when Fr. Robbins took over at Our Saviour, the parish has been recruiting priests to say Mass in the extraordinary form but has not been able to find one “willing to do this on a regular basis,” according to the church bulletin.
Read the rest here .
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