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A media release from the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP):
EWTN to Televise Live Tridentine Mass Celebrated by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
DENTON, Nebraska - AUGUST 17, 2007 - For the first time in its 26 year history, Mother Angelica’s Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) will be broadcasting a live Solemn High Mass at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama on September 14, 2007 at 8:00AM EST. EWTN has asked for the assistance of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, an international Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right, to help celebrate this “extraordinary” form.
This past July 7th, Pope Benedict XVI affirmed the beauty and importance of the Tridentine Mass by issuing Summorum Pontificum, a papal document encouraging and confirming the right of all Latin Rite priests to use this more ancient use of the Mass starting September 14th. The Tridentine Mass was the normative liturgy experienced by Latin Rite Catholics prior to the Second Vatican Council.
“Most Catholics have not seen this heavenly celebration in over 40 years,” said Father Calvin Goodwin, a professor at the Society’s international English-speaking seminary located in Denton, Nebraska. “We are very excited to help EWTN and to support the Holy Father’s call for a wider presence of this form of the Mass. This is a cause for great joy.”
Priests and seminarians from Denton, Nebraska will travel to Alabama and provide the celebrant, deacon, subdeacon, preacher, master of ceremonies and altar servers.
About the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
Established in 1988 by Pope John Paul II, the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter is an international society of Catholic priests entrusted with the preservation and administration of the Catholic Church’s ancient Latin liturgical traditions. Over 120 seminarians are preparing for the priesthood in the Fraternity’s two seminaries in Bavaria, Germany and Denton, Nebraska.About EWTN
Founded by Mother Angelica, a Poor Clare nun, the Eternal Word Television Network has become the largest religious media network in the world, transmitting programming 24 hours a day to more than 123 million homes in 140 countries and territories on more than 4,800 cable systems, wireless cable, Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS), low power TV and individual satellite users.Contact:
Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary
7880 West Denton Road
Denton, NE 68339 U.S.A.
(402) 797-7700
seminary@fsspolgs.org
Huzzah!
What good news! Hopefully this spells an end to the abuses that Christopher Ferrara records in http://www.networkgonewrong.org/.
Too early to judge, I think. If this becomes more than a one time celebration, then we can hope….
at long last the real mass . ewtn is not known for any abuse of the n.o. rite they have had the n.o. in latin
every onces in awhile i think at least 2 times a year.
usally Fr wolf.
In case you were responding to me (and you may not have been), I did not mean abuses in the Masses depicted on EWTN, but rather other problematic or just plain wrong shows that have appeared. Please see the link.
Tobias Petrus thank you for the warning. i might see what the talk about EWTN being at least on the possible verge of apostasy, but what are other examples besides abuses in Novus Ordo Missae; what other examples are they thinking of. Mother Angelica and her community pray the Holy Rosary properly and daily; it could be in Latin, but they are not deviating from the Church. The international Rosary is recited quite rapidly, but they have good intentions i Hope And Pray. the donut man and other programs seem silly at times. For The Will Of God For His Glory Alone May we Live And Strive for all souls to focus on Him and seek first His Kingdom. The Lord God Is With us And Loves us His Children! :)!