Tradition is for the Young - Photos of Recent Pontifical Mass

On May 18, the Fourth Sunday after Easter, His Excellency Ronald Gainer, Bishop Emeritus of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, celebrated a pontifical Mass in the traditional Roman Rite at St. Joseph’s Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Mass was sponsored by our friends at the Durandus Institute; the program of sacred music included Victoria’s Missa O Quam Gloriosum.

Anyone who has ever served this rite of Mass knows that it requires a fair amount of organizing and rehearsal to do properly; the reward is, of course, a ceremony which truly impresses upon one, forcibly and unmistakably, the power and majesty of what the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass really is. We can all take encouragement once again from the fact that almost none of the people who are making the effort and commitment to put this together are old enough to be doing so from any sense of “nostalgia”; what we see here is a true and sincere love for the richness of our Catholic liturgical tradition. Feliciter! (Photos courtesy of Gaudete Photography; click here to see the full album.)