As a child, I do not recall from memory scenes like the ones in these photos, where several Masses were going on at the same time except when I was visiting Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome as late as 2016.
If you arrived at the Basilica when it opened at 7 AM, I think, you would see priests at all the side altars of the Basilica celebrating Mass. Some were using the modern Missal and others the 1962 Missal. All were welcome, todas, todas, todas.
But Pope Francis changed all of that. Maybe four or five years ago, no longer are priests allowed to say Mass at side altars as I experienced up until 2016. They have to concelebrate at regularly scheduled Masses.
Thank God, that with all the liturgical problems that the Church experiences with the wild and individualistic celebrations of the Modern Mass, that Pope Francis saw fit to kill the TLM’s celebration at St. Peter’s and those dastardly priests who like multiple Masses going on at the same time at all the various altars in St. Peter’s.
I can sleep better at night knowing this.
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