Pictures and Audio of the Live September 14th Mass

The September 14th Mass is available on DVD from Fraternity Publications.
Pictures and Audio of the EWTN mass available at FSSP.org.

EWTN has placed a link for "Motu Proprio Resources" on their main page. Various materials can be found at this page including an online video of the mass.

Live Televised Mass

DENTON, Nebraska -  For the first time in its 26 year history, Mother Angelica's Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) has broadcast a live Solemn High Mass at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama on September 14, 2007 at 8:00AM EST.  This mass was rebroadcast, Sept 14 6:00PM & Sept 15 12:00 AM. EWTN asked for the assistance of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, an international Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right, to help celebrate this "extraordinary" form.

This past July 7th, Pope Benedict XVI affirmed the beauty and importance of the Tridentine Mass by issuing Summorum Pontificum, a papal document encouraging and confirming the right of all Latin Rite priests to use this more ancient use of the Mass starting September 14th. The Tridentine Mass was the normative liturgy experienced by Latin Rite Catholics prior to the Second Vatican Council.

"Most Catholics have not seen this heavenly celebration in over 40 years," said Father Calvin Goodwin, a professor at the Society's international English-speaking seminary located in Denton, Nebraska. "We are very excited to help EWTN and to support the Holy Father's call for a wider presence of this form of the Mass. This is a cause for great joy."

Priests and seminarians from Denton, Nebraska travelled to Alabama and provided the celebrant, deacon, subdeacon, preacher, master of ceremonies and altar servers.

About EWTN
Founded by Mother Angelica, a Poor Clare nun, the Eternal Word Television Network has become the largest religious media network in the world, transmitting programming 24 hours a day to more than 123 million homes in 140 countries and territories on more than 4,800 cable systems, wireless cable, Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS), low power TV and individual satellite users.

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The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in collaboration with Una Voce America will be offering another training workshop for priests interested in learning how to celebrate the “extraordinary form” of the Roman Rite.  The workshop will take place the first week of September 2007 from the 3rd (Monday) through 7th (Friday) hosted by Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary in Lincoln, Nebraska.  All the fundamentals involved in learning the Traditional Latin Mass will be covered.  Priests will receive a complete explanation with hands-on practice of the rubrics of the 1962 Missale Romanum as well as an introduction to Latin, traditional liturgical principles, and Gregorian Chant.  A comprehensive materials packet will also be provided.

The course will follow the same method used successfully in the workshops conducted this past June when the Fraternity trained diocesan and religious priests in the Older Use during three different sessions.

Further workshops are being planned for the late fall.

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Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum

Motu Proprio: in latin, unofficial english text.

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One Year to the Day Before the Release of the Motu Proprio

On Friday 7 July 2006,  the General Chapter of the Priestly Fraternity
of Saint Peter, gathered in Wigratzbad (Germany), has elected 

Fr. John Berg as Superior General

for a six-year term according to law.
An American citizen, Fr. Berg has studied philosophy in the USA and theology in Germany (Wigratzbad) and in Rome. He has worked in pastoral ministry and as a seminary professor. Very Rev. Fr. Berg is the third Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter.

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