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Article: Latin Mass finds home; Traditional service draws the faithful to Newton parish
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 2, 2008
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GLOBE WEST 1 / MATTERS OF FAITH
Stepping into the Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Parish church in
Newton at Sunday noontime feels like stepping backward in time.
Hundreds pray solemnly in Latin, rising and kneeling frequently,
as reverent Gregorian chants echo off the sanctuary's soaring
stained-glass windows.
The air is thick with incense, women wear chapel veils, and
everyone - parishioners, altar servers, and the Rev. Charles J.
Higgins - prays facing the church altar and the large crucifix
hanging above.
This is the Tridentine Mass - known more familiarly as the Latin
Mass - that for 40 years was an endangered species of worship in the
Roman Catholic Church.
After the Vatican decreed in the ...