In a previous post, I had asked if anyone could affirm a claim made in blog comboxes about Bishop Vigneron having celebrated the usus antiquior. Thanks to a reader, I received a link to a page at the Institute of Christ the King with photos of one such Mass.
My google searches for proof kept turning up empty which I thought was unusual given the high publicity things get on the web.
These pictures were taken in 2005 on the occasion of Confirmation at a Traditional Latin Mass community, some two years before Summorum Pontificum.
Click here to view all of the pictures of Bp Vigneron celebrating this Mass and conferring the sacrament of Confirmation.
This is very heart-warming for parishes that celebrate Mass in the extraordinary form here in Detroit. It means an opportunity for a Pontifical High Mass for several parishes, and perhaps someday, at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral (which will be interesting given interior changes a few years ago). I fully expect to see the number of parishes offering the Traditional Latin Mass increase under this bishop. The interest is there, but I suspect the resources will be offered through the archdiocese, especially at Sacred Heart Major Seminary. I am most especially happy for seminarians who have an interest in the extraordinary form.
If there are records of other Masses, please email me or drop a link in the combox, anonymous or otherwise. If you know how, write in a pseudname rather than leave "anonymous".UPDATE 1: I was just emailed this online PDF in which a Pontifical Mass in Oakland was celebrated by Bp Vigneron.
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Bp. Vigneron to Detroit looks like another wonderful appointment by Pope Benedict XVI. What a great pontificate!
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Diane,
The pic you have up IS the Pontifical Mass referred to in your update.
The update link goes to a February 2006 newsletter from ICK. In it, it mentions that the "Dec. 10" Mass was Pontifical.
The link from the ICK photogallery from where you got your pic says, "On Dec. 10, 2005, the Most Revered Allen H. Vigneron, Bishop of Oakland, California ..."
How sad (for us) that His Excellency is moving. He had agreed to preside in choir at the closing Dominican Rite Solemn Mass of our up coming conference and workshops on the Dominican Rite: http://dominican-liturgy.blogspot.com/2009/01/dominican-rite-conference-august-2009.html
I guess we will now have to wait for his successor and invite him.
Awwww - I completely empathize and have promised others from Oakland who have contacted me to ask readers to pray you get another great archbishop.
I entrusted the matter of Detroit to Our Lady. I specifically requested that she send us not only a loyal son, but one who could celebrate the usus antiquior. I not only prayed, but told her that I trusted she would take care of it.
I ask everyone reading to entrust Oakland and all dioceses currently open with Our Lady as well.
I was so glad to hear the new Archbishop acknowledge the Blessed Virgin Mary in his statement.
I will make that prayer request for Oakland soon. I'm swamped and just had a document drop in my inbox which I am trying to get reasonable into English from Italian.
Fr. Augustine, maybe I can talk Archbishop Vigneron into returning to Oakland for the Dominican conference - and maybe bringing one of his wayward canonists in tow...
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