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Article: LATIN MASS REVIVAL | MOVE SPARKS INTEREST IN CENTURIES-OLD FORM OF WORSHIP

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June 15, 1999
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-- If this were a Sunday, Father Brian Bovee would be at a quick gallop. At 9 a.m., he would dress in formal garb to deliver the Lord's word to Rockford's faithful.

Afterward, he would jump into his car and head east on I-88 to make the 12:30 Mass at St. Mary's in Aurora.

Faith would deliver him in time.

Even if Mother Nature were having a bad day.

"I pray that snow doesn't come on Sunday," he jokes.

Bovee does the interstate gait because he offers a service few other Catholic priests in the area can match.

He delivers Mass the old-fashioned way -- in Latin.

The Tridentine (Latin) Mass took a hit during the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Vatican II didn't abolish the rite, but ...

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