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Article: A DEVOTION TO TRADITION AS CHURCH CLOSURES LOOM, LATIN MASS WORSHIPERS FEAR FOR PARISH'S FUTURE WORSHIPERS AT LATIN MASS FEAR FOR CHURCH'S FUTURE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2004
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Visitors to the noon Sunday Mass at Holy Trinity Church in
Boston's South End might be forgiven for thinking time travel is
possible.
Women and girls wear mantillas - a lightweight lace - to cover
their heads. Only men are allowed in the sanctuary, the area hard by
the altar. The priest faces east, just as the worshipers do, so for
much of the service only his back is visible as he quietly mouths
ancient prayers in Latin.
When the time comes for the homily, the priest climbs the steps
into a pulpit - rarely seen in Catholic churches today - and at
Communion, men and women, boys and girls kneel before another
architectural relic, an altar rail, their mouths agape as they take
care not to ...