Summorum Pontificum
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Summorum Pontificum Cura is an Apostolic Letter of Pope Benedict XVI decreed on 7 July 2007.
A pre-1969 Roman Rite altar with reredos. A main altar was usually preceded by three steps, below which were said the prayers at the foot of the altar. Side altars usually had only one step.
Low Mass celebrated at the Chapel of the Dawn Gate in Wilno (Vilnius). Interior in 1864.
Assisted mass by missal 1962 (Prague)
Pope Benedict XVI, Berlin – 2011 cropped
Tridentine Mass
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The Tridentine Mass, also known as the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, the usus antiquior, the Vetus Ordo, the Traditional Latin Mass, or the Traditional Rite, is the form of Mass found in the R
Summorum Pontificum
…decreed on 7 July 2007. This letter specifies the circumstances in which Catholic priests of the Latin Church could celebrate Mass according to the "Missal promulgated by Pope Saint John XXIII in 1962" (the last edition of the Roman Missal, in the form known as the Tridentine Mass) and administer most of the sacraments in the form used before the…
Elevation of the chalice after the consecration during a Solemn Mass celebrated by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
Missale Romanum in Croatian Glagolitic script printed in 1483
Elevation of the Chalice during consecration at a missa cantata