Within months, the majority of Catholic parishes were conducting Sunday services in their local languages, while those Gregorian chants were replaced by guitar-playing and folk singers. Latin Mass was the standard service given by Catholic churches worldwide until the mid-1960s, when it was abolished as part of the Second Vatican Council in an effort to make the religion more accessible to the modern world. Latin Masses, like the ceremony at the Church of the Holy Innocents, saw an uptick in popularity during the pandemic and include Gregorian chants and ritualistic incense. There are also plumes of incense floating through the nave, while both Gregorian chants and periods of profound silence help instill within worshippers the mass’s history and significance. He’s facing the Eucharist-the symbolic body and blood Christ himself and the central act of Christian worship. Rather than facing his congregants, for instance, the priest conducts the mass with his back to them. The service certainly feels ancient, like a journey through space and time. Also known as the Tridentine Mass, McNulty said it offers a direct connection to the scores of generations of Catholics who came before her. Stephen Yang for NY Postĭating back to at least the 15th century, Latin Mass is rich, mysterious, strictly arranged and (as its name suggests) conducted entirely in Latin. “But there are people like me who are drawn to it for the beauty.” The practice of Latin Mass, which was abolished some six decades ago by the Second Vatican Council, features a priest with his back turned away from the congregation. “There are people who are interested in the Latin Mass, that are drawn to it because of the intellectual aspect of it,” she said. “My husband was definitely the driving force behind it,” McNulty, 35, said, of their shift to Latin Mass. Now expecting her fifth kid, McNulty says she feels deeply connected with the ancient ritual that is Latin Mass. But by the time the couple had their third child three years ago, they started attending weekly. Initially the couple and their children worshipped at Most Precious Blood only occasionally -their regular parish was just a short stroll away. But something always felt missing about the experience, McNulty said-something she could not put her finger on until a few years ago when she and her husband, Steven, began attending a traditional Latin Mass at the Most Precious Blood of Jesus parish a 20 minute-drive away in Pittsburgh.
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