"A beautiful part of the tradition of the Church". Bishop Earl Fernandes warm about conventional Mass

Bishop Fernandes' father frequently had adequate guitars at Mass and liturgical dances, so he took small Earl to the “Trydenne Mass”. While in college, the future hierarch – in search of a liturgy full of devotional silence, tranquility and beautiful Gregorian chorale – he frequently attended the Holy Mass in conventional life. He celebrated it as a priest, and present – being a shepherd of the Diocese of Columbus he clearly says: It's a beautiful part of the church tradition..

Bishop Earl Fernandes has been an average of the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio since 2022. Earlier, working as a priest in the parish, he learned to celebrate the Holy Mass in a conventional life. However, it turns out that he had met her much earlier.

– For my parents – immigrants from India whose native land was Goa – the experience of parish life in Ohio was a cultural shock: guitars, drums, liturgical dances and more. People were great, community life was authentic, but sometimes my father missed a more conventional experience. Then he took us to St. Joseph's Church in Toledo, where the Trident Mass was celebrated – says Bishop Fernandes. – My father had a sentiment for the Latin Mass – adds.

Hierarch admits that the 1970s, in which he was raised, were in the Church sometimes “strange”, both liturgical and catechistically. Therefore, his father taught him the truths of religion from the Baltimore Catechism, which is inactive utilized in communities tied to the conventional Holy Mass. erstwhile the future bishop went to college, he continued attending the “Trydney Mass” from time to time.

– erstwhile I went to med school, an individent Trident Mass was celebrated nearby. I liked the Gregorian disease, as well as its peace and quiet. I besides attended Mass in English, depending on my schedule “The bishop added.

Working as a priest in the parish, at the request of his bishop, he learned to execute Mass in this first form. – There was nothing ideological about it; we wanted to celebrate Mass to respond to the pastoral needs of the faithful – remembers the bishop. – It's a beautiful part of the church tradition. – adds.

In the year erstwhile Bishop Fernandes included the diocese, there were no priestly ordinations at all, and there were only 17 alumns in the seminary. present there are as many as 43 of them; Bishop Fernandes ordained 9 fresh priests over these 3 years and incarcated another 5. As previously reported The College Fix, Bishop dismissed liberal paulist priests from academic pastoral ministry at Ohio State University – the largest public college in Columbus – and entrusted pastoral ministry to diocesan priests.

– In 2022, I met with criticism erstwhile I entrusted academic pastoral service at the Newman Center at Ohio State University to diocesan priests. But that brings fruit. We see young men curious in diocesan seminary – says the hierarch.

The warm words of Bishop Fernandes about the conventional Holy Mass fit into a broader interest in this form of liturgy among the Z-generation or millenniums. And erstwhile any bishops conflict hard with the “old” Mass, Communion on their knees or celebrating Mass ad orientem, at the same time young people are attracted to the Catholic religion by conventional liturgy.

In May 2025, Fr Patrick Hyde OP, an academic pastor at Indiana University, noted the increasing interest in the “Trident Mass” with the students he uses. – We even have students who drive over an hr 1 way to attend the Sunday Latin Mass said the priest. – These young people have been bombarded with sound and images all their lives. They want a minute of remainder that gives them remainder and leads to God – he added.

Source: liftsitenews.com

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Academic pastor: young people want a Mass full of respect and silence – older generations resist