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The Mass We Understand—and the Faith We Don’t, by Mark Haas – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Priest celebrating Mass. Eucharist. Photo by Diocese of Spokane on Unsplash

By Mark Haas, Crisis Magazine, March 9, 2026

Mark Haas is a Catholic composer and speaker. He serves as the Director of Music at Ave Maria Parish in Ave Maria, FL. Mark lives in Ave Maria with his wife and their seven original compositions. Visit his website at www.markhaasmusic.com.

Being able to understand the words of the Mass doesn’t necessarily mean you understand its mystery.

For nearly 60 years now, multiple generations of Catholics have lived entirely within the experience of the post-Vatican II liturgy—the Novus Ordo Missae, promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969. One of the pastoral goals of the reform was intelligibility and fluency of the Mass texts.

Full disclosure: I love both forms of the Mass, and I am a music director at a parish that executes both with intentionality, reverence, and beauty. …

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