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TLM CANCELLED! Austin Bishop Affirms Vatican Instructed Diocese to End Latin Mass at Cathedral, by Emily Mangiaracin – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

TLM CANCELLED! Austin Bishop Affirms Vatican Instructed Diocese to End Latin Mass at Cathedral, by Emily Mangiaracin

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By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews, Feb 14, 2024

Bishop Joe S. Vásquez told parishioners in Austin that the TLM will end at St. Mary Cathedral on March 19 ‘following the guidance of the Holy See.’

In a letter to the parishioners of St. Mary Cathedral obtained by LifeSiteNews, Bishop Joe S. Vásquez noted that he had “granted a dispensation” for the cathedral to continue Masses according to the Missal of 1962 when Pope Francis’ Latin Mass-restricting motu proprio Traditionis Custodes was issued. Meanwhile, he “discerned the best way to implement [its] guidance.”

“As required by the rescript of the Holy Father issued in February of last year, I submitted the case of the celebrations according to the 1962 missal at the Cathedral parish to the Vatican Dicastery for Divine Worship to receive the guidance and direction of the Holy See,” wrote Vásquez. ….