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Latin-English Booklet Missal for Praying the Traditional Mass

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Description:
The Tridentine Mass (Latin: Missa Tridentina) is the form of the Roman Rite Mass presented in the typical editions of the Roman Missal that were published between 1570 and 1962. Other names for it include Traditional Mass and Latin Mass, and, in its latest form, Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal or Mass of John XXIII, after the Pope who promulgated that edition of the Roman Missal. In his 7 July 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum and in his accompanying letter to bishops, Pope Benedict XVI designated the 1962 version of the Tridentine Mass “an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite”, the “ordinary form” being the form introduced in 1969-1970. Since then, the 1962 version is sometimes referred to, not as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, but as “the Extraordinary Form”. The term “Tridentine” is derived from Tridentinus, the Latin adjective that means “related to the city of Trent, Italy”: it was in response to a decision of the Council of Trent that Pope Pius V promulgated the 1570 Roman Missal, making it mandatory throughout the Western Church, excepting those regions and religious orders whose existing missals dated to before 1370. Most of these regions and orders have since adopted the standard Roman Missal: the most important non-Roman liturgies that continue in use are the Ambrosian Rite, the Mozarabic Rite and the Carthusian Rite. For the forms of the Mass liturgy prior to 1570, see Pre-Tridentine Mass.

Keywords:
Tridentine Mass, Missa Tridentina