The extraordinary form of the Roman Rite will be celebrated in the main parish church of Wangaratta, St. Patrick's, from September 25 2011.
Summorum Pontificum Wangaratta was founded under the title of 'Wangaratta Latin Mass Society' on September 26 2006. After a slow start (given the attitudes of the times) WLMS's first Mass was celebrated at Glenrowan (15km south of Wangaratta) on 10/07/2011, 3 days after Pope B16's Motu Propio liberalizing the old Mass.
Masses were celebrated from time to time when a priest was available (as seen here on Rorate) and our first Sunday Mass took place in early 2008.
Through constant communication with our Bishop, Joseph Grech (RIP) we were granted 'permission' for Sunday Mass once a month which gradually grew to once a fortnight to eventually once a week. All this could not have come about without the help of Fr. Hynes, a diocesan priest from Sandhurst, Victoria.
Now with the help of another exceptional priest we're able to make a very significant move and that is to move away from Delaney Chapel, the chapel to the former Convent of the Brigidine Sisters, our home for the past 5 years to now be celebrating Mass in St. Patrick's Wangaratta which will be celebrating it's 150th anniversary in 2013.
We wish to thank all those who have contributed, in one way or another, to the successes of this lay led initiative and especially many thanks to the determination of our beloved Pope, Benedict XVI and to all those faithful around the planet who have stuck it out and have been a great example to us. Our very young congregation will now be part of a parish environment that is open and accepting in the true sense of ecumenism.
This first Mass will be offered for Christian unity and the intentions of the Pope.
You report: Regular Mass in rural Victoria
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