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High Latin Wedding Masses
We are having a Traditional Latin Mass for our wedding, and I was just wondering if it can be a high Mass? I have never been to a Catholic wedding before (I’m a convert). I am going to ask a priest at our next meeting, but in the meantime I was wondering if you gals knew if if a high wedding Mass was possible.
Thanks!
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Re: High Latin Wedding Masses
Now that I think of it, I went to one at a parish in California that regularly has the Extraordinary Form.
That's two high solemn (or is it "solemn high") nuptial Masses in the Extraordinary Form, and in the last 3 years, and these are the best-catechized group of Catholics you'll ever meet. We all have degrees in theology!
[QUOTE]100% possible. I went to one in Tulsa presided over by a Bishop. I'm an amateur liturgist, and the high Extraordinary Form Mass was my primary reason for making the trip from California to Tulsa in January (to a cash bar, too). Now that I think of it, I went to one at a parish in California that regularly has the Extraordinary Form. That's two high solemn (or is it "solemn high") nuptial Masses in the Extraordinary Form, and in the last 3 years, and these are the best-catechized group of Catholics you'll ever meet. We all have degrees in theology!
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</div><div>"(to a cash bar, too)” <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-surprised.gif" border="0" alt="Surprised" title="Surprised" /> haha</div><div>
</div><div>"presided over by a Bishop” - does it have to be presided over a Bishop? I’ve asked my priest but he said he would get back to us (the Traditional priest that is most likely presiding is technically a visiting priest, although he almost always celebrates the TLM @ our parish) because he didn’t know. I suppose this is contingent on having a choir as well? </div><div>
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[Just 'cause the story is SO cute: The Tulsa bride and groom met at a monastery. The groom worked there in fundraising - no plans of becoming a Brother. The bride's family often attended Mass in the chapel because the monastery was also Extraordinary Form. I have a friend who should be a Priest in that monastery now. He told stories from when he visited of going to Confession in Latin. Anyway, I met my future husband on the subway. He was reading in Greek from the same publisher I was reading in Latin. But that still doesn't beat meeting at a monastery! And, while I remember the cash bar, I don't begrudge it. I'd never met the bride, and she was still so gracious, and her family, too.]
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Here's a good breakout of the differences:
Solemn or High Mass - priest is assisted by a deacon and sub-deacon; parts of the Liturgy are sung or chanted by the priest and/or choir, incense is used.
Missa Cantata or Sung Mass - celebrated in the manner of a High Mass, but without a deacon or sub-deacon. It is therefore technically a type of Low Mass according to the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1917. This Mass is, misleadingly, often called a High Mass although the Ceremonial for the use of the Catholic churches in the United States of America (1894) called it a "High Mass without deacon or sub-deacon."
Low Mass - no deacon or sub-deacon, priest does not chant, no incense. Music or hymns not integral to the Liturgy may be played or sung.