Solemn Pontifical Mass in Thanksgiving for Summorum Pontificum, Saturday, May 28, 2018,

Cultus divinus!

"Thank you Holy Father [Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI] for your wisdom, foresight, and pastoral generosity, in allowing the Usus Antiquior to once again flourish in the universal Church... 

"You....young people present here...are a great sign of encouragement and hope for the Church, tossed about these days on the troubled waters of secularism and relativism... You understand your place in the Church to help rebuild a culture of life in society and a renewal of Catholic culture within the Church Herself... So many young people are attracted to this venerable form of the Roman Rite[!]...

"This is the Mass of my mother,...the Mass that drew my father to the Church and fueled his conversion...

"'There is no contradiction between the two editions of the Roman Missal. In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but no rupture. What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place...' [July 7, 2007 "Letter to Bishops on occasion of Summorum Pontificum"]

"[Pope Benedict XVI told me that] 'He issued the motu proprio in order to reconcile the Church with her past.'

"One should be able to recognize the older Roman Rite in the newer."

--Archbishop Sample

Plinthos: The irony of this celebratory Mass is that it is made possible by the Priestly Society of Saint Peter and the Institute of Christ the King, neither of which needed the motu proprio. A decade into Summorum Pontificum the Cathedrals of the world and the priests of the world are still quite closed to the Latin Mass. This Mass should have been celebrated in all of the Cathedrals and Shrines of the world by the local diocesan clergy!