Letter: Correction of terms

I am writing about the article in the Denver Catholic Register of Nov. 12 titled “Historic Mass draws hundreds.” I would like to point out per the motu proprio “Summorum Pontificum” pronounced by Pope Benedict XVI July 7, 2007, that, the “Tridentine Mass” is now known as the “extraordinary form” of the Mass and should reflect that terminology. The DCR had stated “The Tridentine Mass is the Latin-language liturgy used before Vatican II.” The history of the extraordinary form of the Mass is from the Council of Trent [Tridentine] of 1570 until 1970 when the ordinary form of the Mass (Novus ordo) was promulgated in that year; the extraordinary form was never abrogated.

John S. Miller
Associate director
Office of Liturgy
Archdiocese of Denver