Sunday, February 26, 2012 , by
Marie Dean, Ashbourne, Co. Meath, Eire
I was surprised, living in Malta for three months, that there was no Tridentine Latin Mass at St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta.
In Sacrosanctum Concilium, a document of Vatican II from 1963, Pope Paul VI said the Mass was “a sacred action surpassing all others”. However, this sacredness, as well as respect and awe, has been lost by the emphasis on the people in the Novus Ordo, and the ignoring of the Transcendence of God.
The beauty of the Mass for the Ages, with the balance of silence and chant, brings a new spirituality to those who attend. I am sorry that one of the most beautiful churches of the world does not present the most beautiful liturgy in the world, the Tridentine Mass.
I ask those in charge of the liturgical life of the Church in Malta to come into the movement which is sweeping the Church in all other Western countries, the revival of the Tridentine Mass, the most beautiful masterpiece of man’s creation in response to Revelation and Tradition. I predict a renewal of Catholicism, desperately needed in Malta, would be the result of this rediscovered beauty in St John’s.
The TLM has renewed the faith of many in the USA and in particualr, my neck of the woods, NC. Unlike Malta, were stats show the older are the most likely to go to Mass, I see at the TLM, packed Churches and mianly, people under age 45....most older do not go or go to the NO...the TLm would indeed draw more Maltese to Mass and the traditional practices.....I hav a vested interest as I would love to move to Malta myself, would go today if had a job, but as it looks, likely some yrs....would be nice to see Malta still have the Fide then and not go "european", meaning, empty churches and godless policies.
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