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Fr. Joseph Gill: The Novus Ordo and the Interior Life – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Joseph Gill: The Novus Ordo and the Interior Life

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By Fr. Joseph Gill, Crisis Magazine, April 20, 2026

Fr. Joseph Gill is a priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport, a pastor and a high school chaplain and teacher. He is a graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville and Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Maryland. He has published several albums of Christian music, available on Spotify and Youtube.

 

The Novus Ordo can be celebrated reverently, but to do so requires a rich interior life of a priest, lest the temptations of the Mass strip him of the august dignity in which he participates.

We’ve all been to our fair share of banal, cringe, or even disrespectful Novus Ordo Masses. As a priest who celebrates the Novus Ordo, I can see how easy it is in the New Rite to fall into those traps. It is evermore necessary, then, for a priest who celebrates the Novus Ordo to cultivate a rich interior life of union with Christ because this is the only antidote to the myriad of temptations to trivialize the liturgy.

This temptation does not exist in the TLM. By the very structure of the liturgy, it is nearly impossible to celebrate it irreverently. Of course, every priest should live in intimacy with God, but even a priest who doesn’t pray much can still celebrate the TLM in an objectively reverent way. The Latin Mass is structured in such a way as to eliminate the temptation for a priest to insert his personality, his ego, and his weaknesses into the liturgy. …

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