What happens in a Tridentine Mass?

The Tridentine Mass is also known as the ‘Old Mass according to the 1962 Missal’, and sometimes inaccurately called ‘The Latin Mass’. In a Tridentine Mass: everything is in Latin, the priest conducts the liturgy facing East, leading the community who are behind him.

What is a Class 1 feast?

The equivalent type in the older Tridentine or Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and the 1962 Missal of Pope John XXIII would be a I Class Feast. Feast—the rank of secondary liturgical days including lesser events in the life of Jesus, Mary or an Apostle (theologically speaking) or for major saints.

Why is it called the Tridentine Mass?

The Tridentine Mass takes its name from the Council of Trent (1545-63), which was called largely in response to the rise of Protestantism in Europe. The council addressed many issues, however, including the proliferation of modifications of the traditional Latin Rite Mass.

Why did Pope Paul VI change the mass?

In response to the bishops’ concerns, some changes were made to the text. Pope Paul VI and the Consilium interpreted this as lack of approval for the Normative Mass, which was replaced by the text included in the book Novus Ordo Missae (The New Order of Mass) in 1969.

What are the major Catholic feast days?

In addition to Easter, “the feast of feasts,” there are 12 other major feasts: Christmas, Epiphany, Hypapante (Meeting of Christ with Simeon, February 2), Palm Sunday, Ascension, Pentecost, Transfiguration (August 6), Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14), and four feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary—her Nativity ( …

What is Novus Ordo Church?

Novus Ordo literally translated means “new order”, this is the proper term for the way Mass has been celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church since 1965. Catholics receive the Eucharist in their hands, and now the priest says the Mass facing the congregation, giving the perception that the Mass is for our benefit.