Latin Mass finds permanent home in Los Angeles archdiocese

Latin Mass finds permanent home in Los Angeles archdiocese



St. Vitus Catholic Church in San Fernando will be first parish in Los
Angeles run by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter; Archbishop José
Gomez dedicated the church according to the Latin liturgy

June 28, 2018

Archbishop Gomez leads the entrance procession. (Photo credit: Evan H. Harrington)

The smell of incense and drywall mingled
while more than two hundred people attended the dedication of St. Vitus
Catholic Church in San Fernando. This church is the first in Los Angeles
to be operated by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), an order
of priests dedicated to traditional liturgy, specifically the Latin
Mass.

As the FSSP is dedicated to the Latin
Mass, so too will their church be: Archbishop José H. Gomez dedicated
the church according to the Latin liturgy, saying the dedicatory prayers
in Latin and sprinkling the outside and inside of the church while the
choir chanted the Litany of the Saints.

Following the dedication, North American
Superior Father Gerard Saguto, FSSP, celebrated the first church’s Mass,
and Archbishop Gomez preached the first sermon, focusing on the God’s
call for the parish to “redeem that little part of the world we live
in.” 

“What’s going to happen now that we have
our own church is that the Mass will still be the center of what we do,
the Mass in the Extraordinary Form, however it will bring to life
everything else, so we’ll have a full parish life,” Fr. Fryar
explained. 

When asked what advice they would give to
Catholics interested in attending the Latin Mass for the first time,
both Fr. Saguto and Fr. Fryar expressed the need to attend more than
once.

“I think you have to, first of all, give
it a fair chance,” said Fr. Saguto, “You can’t just go once, you have to
go 10 times, you have to go 20 times, because it’s a different way.
It’s a different approach of worship.” 

Full story at Angelus News.