traditional Latin mass: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Tridentine mass • Tridentine rite

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Father Laurence Gresser, wearing red vestments, raises the host during the consecration at the altar in the Tridentine Mass at Maternal Heart Church in Sydney.

Large crowd of clergy in white vestments and mitres processes through St. Peter's Square during the opening ceremonies of the Second Vatican Council, with crowds and colonnades in the background.

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traditionalist Catholicism mass liturgy of the Eucharist liturgy of the Word