Database for the Extraordinary Rite

If you are interested in assisting at Mass according to the 1962 liturgical books. and in finding other like-minded clergy and laymen and -women, you might want to add yourself to this database.

http://www.lumengentleman.com/motucontacts.asp

I think this is a great idea, and a great service offered by the Gentlemen.

Because to agree (on one point only!) with the Bishop Trautmans of the world, (and with my own ordinary, I suppose, when it comes down to it...,) there will be very few people who desire this.
But to deny their existence and to make it difficult if not impossible for them to connect and organize and grow in faith does seem the intent of many on the other fringe of the Church.

Benedict has given a great gift to the people of the Church, especially those whose main concern is the "reform of the reform."

The very existence of the Extraordinary Rite, with its greater precision required in the the ars celebrandi will serve as a model, as a reminder to everyone else of what the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass can be, should be, must be.

I would give a great deal to be able to help this happen.
It will certainly not happen at our parish, or at any other in the cluster.

But I know for a fact there are people who want this but who have been asking for years and have tired of asking.
They will not be taking the initiative in this, the chances of their taking advantage of the internet to network are slim to none.

And strangely, my work, my actual position, my very activity in Church music means I am not in a position to help, or actively encourage them.

But who knows, perhaps the next time a family requests that the Ordinary be sung in Latin at a funeral, TPTB will soften and finally consent.