Archbishop Burke celebrates Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica
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May be first Tridentine Rite Mass to be celebrated in Basilica in almost 40 years
VATICAN CITY — The Gregorian chant of the Tridentine Mass filled the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of St. Peter’s Basilica Oct. 18 as U.S. Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, head of the Vatican’s highest court, celebrated a pontifical high Mass.
The Mass marked the liturgical close of a conference in Rome on Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 apostolic letter, “Summorum Pontificum,” which expanded permission for the celebration of the Mass using the 1962 Roman Missal, commonly known as the Tridentine rite.
Cardinal Angelo Comastri, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, said in a statement Oct. 19, “The Mass represented an extraordinary event, an event authorized on the occasion of the conference.”
The cardinal declined further comment, but another Vatican official said the Mass probably was the first pontifical high Mass using the 1962 rite to be celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica in almost 40 years.
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