Mass of Ages is the quarterly magazine of the Latin Mass Society. It contains reports on our many activities across the country, national and international news of Traditional Catholic events, feature articles on different aspects of traditional Faith and culture, and opinions and views on developments in the Catholic Church.
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Mass of Ages - Spring 2025 Edition
This edition contains special coverage of the Latin Mass Society's sixtieth anniversary celebrations:
- Chairman’s Message - Dr Joseph Shaw wishes everyone a happy sixtieth anniversary!
- Anniversary Year Planner
- Fragments from Calvary - The Holy Cross Pilgrimage, in which a relic of the True Cross will traverse England and Wales, begins in London this coming Good Friday. Richard Pickett reports
- Art and devotion - The True Cross: Dr Caroline Farey on Biblical typology for children
Features include:
- The Monastic Life - John Whitehead reviews a new study of medieval monasticism in both the Orthodox and Catholic traditions
- Learn Latin! As the Government announces its decision to stop teaching Latin instate schools, Matthew Spencer offers an alternative, ‘curiosity based’ method of learning
- Finding Faith - Adult convert Joseph Jarvis tells the story of his journey to the Traditional Latin Mass
- Appeasing the world? How will the Synod on Synodality affect the Church, asks Dr F. Andrew Wolf
- Do not lose heart - Edward Dundon on Our Lady of the Warning
Among our regular contributors:
- World News - Paul Waddington reports on what’s happening around the Globe
- Spirituality - Fr Thomas Crean OP on The Angelic Warfare Confraternity
- Sister Mary of St Peter Our Lord spoke in French to reach Russian ears, as Mary O’Regan explains
- Architecture - Paul Waddington takes a look at the Church of St Chad in Manchester, otherwise known as the Manchester Oratory
- Wine - A fine fermented drink has catechetical and devotional properties, as Dr Sebastian Morello explains
- Safety valve - James Preece on why there is no need for a home education register
- Theology - In his second article on the Creed, Fr Aidan Nichols OP explains that whatever the universe contains, from a galaxy to a gnat, it only does so through created participation in God’s unique, incomparable, ‘act’ of being typology for children
- Master of Camelot - Charles A. Coulombe remembers Arthurian historian Geoffrey Ashe
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