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Article: St. Anthony's Will Celebrate Birth Of Christ With Latin Mass ; City Church Has Been Celebrating Tridentine Mass Since May, Drawing Between 70 And 100 People During The Past Couple Of Months.
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- December 23, 2008
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By DIANE BITTING
"Glo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ria, in excelsis Deo!"
That Latin phrase - Glory to God in the highest - will likely be
sung by many churchgoers on Christmas Eve as they belt out the
refrain from "Angels We Have Heard on High."
But for one Lancaster Catholic church, the entire midnight Mass
will be said and sung in this ancient language.
St. Anthony of Padua, 501 E. Orange St., has been celebrating a
traditional Latin Mass, known as the Tridentine Mass, since May,
nearly 40 years after that tongue had been silenced there and in
most Catholic churches.
This traditional Latin Mass, held every Saturday at 6 p.m., has
been drawing between 70 and 100 people during the past couple of
months, ...