After Last Latin Mass at Parish, North Carolina Catholics Hope and Pray for Its Return, by Zelda Caldwell

TRYON, N.C. — Hours before the bishop of Charlotte’s restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass went into effect, members of a small parish tucked in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Tryon, North Carolina, gathered Thursday evening for one final Mass celebrated in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.

After Mass, as members of the congregation chatted in the church courtyard, several shared with the Register their sense of loss that their regular participation in the liturgy they had raised their children in — and that some had moved here for — was coming to an end.

Still, none of the parishioners interviewed indicated that they have plans to leave their parish, even if that means giving up the traditional Latin Mass (TLM) for what many of them call the “new Mass,” the Novus Ordo or ordinary form of the Mass. …