Rorate Caeli

Developments in the City of Rome

Messa in Latino reports the following news:

1) The Opus Dei-run Minor Basilica of Sant' Eugenio inaugurated its weekly Mass according to the 1962 Missal on the first Sunday of Advent, November 27, 2011. This Mass will be celebrated at 4:00 P.M. until the fourth Sunday of Advent (December 18). The final schedule will be announced by January. The Basilica's Traditional Latin Masses used to be held every third Saturday of the month. (Read the original article on MiL.)

To our knowledge this is the first-ever publicly-accessible every-Sunday TLM to be inaugurated in any church or oratory under the care of Opus Dei.

2) Beginning on December 6 (the feast of St. Nicholas of Bari) the Pontifical Athanaeum Regina Apostolorum (run by the Legionaries of Christ) will have Mass according to the 1962 Missal every Tuesday at 1:00 P.M. This will make Regina Apostolorum the sole Pontifical University in Rome currently with a regularly-scheduled and publicly-announced TLM. (Source.)

It should be noted that there used to be a regularly-scheduled daily Traditional Latin Mass in the Rectory of the Pontifical University of St. Anthony (the "Antonianum" of the Order of Friars Minor). This Mass was established sometime after Summorum Pontificum and was "suppressed" according to Messa in Latino sometime in the middle of 2009. (It is still listed on some un-updated Internet lists of TLM's in Rome, but no longer on either MiL's list or on WikkiMissa's page for Latium.)

Prior to this, an every-Wednesday Mass according to the pre-Conciliar Dominican Rite was established in the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the famed "Angelicum") in 2005, with the professor of Church history Fr. Paul-Bernard Hodel OP as the celebrant; this ceased to be offered after some time. (You can read about this Mass here.)

Hopefully, the Mass at the Regina Apostolorum will fare better, and will endure for far longer.