PETITION FOR EXTRAORDINARY FORM MASS PRESENTED
It is with great joy that Una Voce Central Alabama announce that a petition, containing over 100 signatures of parishioners, representing “a stable group of faithful” in accordance with Article 5 of our Holy Father’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, has been presented to the Pastor of St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Montgomery, Alabama, requesting the regular celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, according to the Missal of Bl. John XXIII.
The process for the restoration of the Extraordinary Form Mass has now officially begun, and we are certain that the number of signatories to the petition will more than meet any definition of “a stable group of faithful” which the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei may ascertain.
St. Peter’s Catholic Church, with its traditional Roman Catholic architecture and fittings, including the main High Altar and 2 side altars, is the ideal location for the celebration of the Latin Mass in central Alabama.
It must be said that the Pastor of St. Peter’s has been very cooperative in his wish to see the Latin Mass offered at St. Peter’s. And, though he is not trained to celebrate the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, he has pledged to exert every effort to locate priests who can celebrate the Mass for those parishioners who so passionately desire it.
Una Voce Central Alabama has 150 Missals of the approved Extraordinary Form Mass, and will donate these to St. Peter’s for use at such Masses. In addition, we reaffirm our pledge to pay the expenses of any priest and potential altar servers in central Alabama who wish to be trained in the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.
Pray for us, that our desires, as well as the expressed wishes of our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, come to fruition at St. Peter’s, Montgomery.
Adesto nobis, Domine Deus noster…..