Vatican Radio: Priest emphasizes many young people drawn to Traditional Latin Mass

September 15, 2009

In an interview with Vatican Radio on the 2nd anniversary of the implementation of Summorum Pontificum, Father Joseph Kramer, FSSP, emphasized that the average age of those attending Mass at his parish is 30. Reacting to a lack of discipline, the younger generation, he says, is drawn to the prayerfulness, silence, order, and symmetry of the Mass.

Father Kramer-- who is pastor of a parish in Rome devoted to the celebration of the sacraments in the extraordinary form-- said that his postwar generation reacted against an overly disciplined environment characterized by coldness and distance between bishops and priests and priests and laity. A positive effect of the Second Vatican Council, he said, was warmer relations within the Church, but the proverbial baby was thrown out with that bathwater.

 

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Further information:

• 2nd Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum's Entrance into Effect (Vatican Radio)
• Summorum Pontificum: two years later (CWN, Sep 14)