Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a special traditional Mass in Latin in the Basilica of San Pedro on October 25, on a return to a previous custom – suspended since 2022 – of an annual pilgrimage of devout Catholics of the Mass in Latin.
Burke will celebrate the solemn pontifical mass, a major Mass in Latin chaired by a bishop, at the altar of the chair, on the second day of the pilgrimage The highest pontiffs —What is held from October 24 to 26, ”according to the Official website of the event. The cardinal had already celebrated a Mass in Latin on that same altar during the 2014 pilgrimage.
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In 2023 and 2024, the pilgrimage could not obtain the authorization to celebrate the Mass in Latin at the altar of the Chair of the Basilica of San Pedro by the Liturgy Office of the Basilica, according to the organizer Christian Marquant.
The office of the liturgical celebrations of the Basilica of San Pedro and the director of the press office of the Holy See did not immediately respond to the request of CNA – an English agency of Ewtn News – to comment on this statement.
The pilgrimage The highest pontiffsin its 14th edition, it leads to the faithful to the petri seat (to the headquarters of Pedro) to give “testimony of the attachment that unites numerous faithful worldwide with the traditional liturgy”, according to the pilgrimage website.
Burke, a defender of the traditional Mass in Latin and one of the most prominent critics in the hierarchy of the late Pope Francis – under whose pontificate fell notoriously in disgrace – met with Pope Leo XIV in a private audience on August 22.
León also sent a congratulation letter on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Burke’s priestly ministry in July.
Rorate Caeli, a well -known place for the devotees of the traditional Mass in Latin, described the celebration of a solemn pontifical mass in the Basilica of San Pedro as an “important sign” of greater tolerance towards the traditional liturgy. Pope Francis had severely restricted the use of Mass in Latin in 2021 and with subsequent legislation.
The October 25 Mass will be preceded by a procession of almost a kilometer from the Basilica of the Saints Celso and Julian to the Basilica of San Pedro.
Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.
Hannah Brockhaus
Hannah Brockhaus is correspondent in Rome by Catholic News Agency. He grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and has a degree in English from the State University Truman in Missouri.