Visitors ask...Latin Mass...

A constant search string that places people on this blog is "Latin Mass" or derivatives thereof ("Latin Mass Parish," for example). From that point on, problems seem to occur and the individual becomes lost.

The Latin Mass can be the Latin "Novus Ordo" Mass (or Ordinary Form) since the Missale Romanum (Roman Missal) that we use at Mass is in Latin but translated into the vernacular (i.e., English or Spanish). So, a Latin Mass could be one in the Ordinary Form recited in Latin. Such a one is to be found at the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Assumption each Sunday morning at 9:00 AM.

The "other" Latin Mass has many names. The motu proprio, "Summorum Pontificum," called it the Extraordinary Form. It has been known, however, as the Tridentine Mass, the Tridentine Latin Mass, the Pian Mass (for Pope Pius V) or the Usus Antiquior (if one wishes to denote its antiquity with modifications over the centuries).

Father John Zuhlsdorf, a Latinist and columnist for "What Does the Prayer Really Say?" (WDTPRS) in the "Wanderer" newspaper decided to hold a contest to find a newer name that all could live with. The Traditional Latin Mass was the name chosen by a decided majority. So, the TLM (for short) is the acronym for the Traditional Mass heard by St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Catherine of Siena.

This blog is called the Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland. It is what "I do!" The TLM Masses in the state of Maryland and in the surrounding states (either Ordinary Form or TLM) are listed in the menu directly to the RIGHT. In Baltimore, the only TLM now said weekly is at Saint Alphonsus Church in Baltimore, MD. In addition, all the Masses that I know of are listed in the FAQs. The link to the FAQs is just below the picture showing the Tridentine Mass!

I hope this helps. If the term "Latin Mass" lands you here, I hope you can begin here at this post and search for what you wish to find! The RIGHT MENU OR THE FAQs is the place to begin!

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