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 - Winter 2024 Edition
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This edition contains special coverage of The Time petition 'Latin Mass at risk':
- The MacMillan Petition: Why Britain? Joseph Shaw on why prominent Catholics and non-Catholics signed an appeal imploring the Holy See to reconsider restrictions on the Latin Mass
- What they said… We reprint the comments of just a few of those forty-eight prominent figures who signed the petition
- The De Saventhem Medal, an award given to those who have made a significant contribution to the cause of the Traditional Mass, was presented to Sir James MacMillan
Other features include:
- Henry Sire on the history of Stonyhurst College
- Modern conventional schooling is an aberration, says Anthony Radice
- Andrew Hutchinson reports from Youth 2000
- Julian Kwasniewski reviews new reprints by Hubert van Zeller
- Latin functions as a language of love, of adoration, of mystery and of longing, as Gavin Ashenden explains
Among our regular contributors:
- Joseph Shaw on the resurgence of interest in the traditional Mass
- We should value indulgences, and try to gain them, but not make them the centre of our spiritual life, says Fr Thomas Crean
- Mary O’Regan on why a dress code for the young might not be such a bad thing
- Paul Waddington describes a church in North Yorkshire that has a connection with the Stockton and Darlington Railway
- Caroline Farey on a remarkable thirteenth century carving from Chartres Cathedral
- James Preece on changes and developments
- Fr Aidan Nichols with an introduction to the Creed
- Paul Waddington looks at what’s happening around the globe affecting the Latin Mass
- Reports from around the country What’s happening where you are
- Charles Coulombe remembers Edward Jenner whose conversion to Catholicism was the culmination of a life devoted to all things Cornish
- Sebastian Morello on matters Australian
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