Friday, July 20, 2007

The Tridentine Liturgy

As everyone has no doubt learned by now, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has issued a Motu Proprio permitting greater use of the Tridentine Mass of the Roman Liturgy. This statement by the Holy Father as well as other useful information on the document Summorum Pontificium may be found at:

http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/bclnewsletterjune07.pdf

The document makes it clear that the Tridentine Liturgy is an “extraordinary” form of the celebration of the liturgy. The 1970 Roman Missal of Pope Paul VI remains the “ordinary” form. The Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificium does not take effect until the Feast of the Exhalation of the Holy Cross on September 14, 2007.

The Tridentine Liturgy is currently available by permission of Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe on Sundays at 12:00 pm at San Ignacio Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is also currently available by permission from Bishop Thomas Olmsted in the Diocese of Phoenix at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Phoenix on Sundays at 1:00 pm. It is also available in Phoenix at St. Augustine Church on Sundays at 7:00 am, weekdays at 6:30 am and Wednesday evenings at 6:30 pm.

Friday, July 13, 2007

Youth Ministry Certification

The Archdiocese of Santa Fe is offering a National Youth Ministry Certificate Program. Cycle One is offered starting September 8-9, 2007. Those interested should contact Bernadette Jaramillo of the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe at (505) 831-8145 or youthdirector@archdiocesesantafe.org