As a Catholic, I feel cheated by the fact that the Church has taken this away from me.

Am I seriously going to drop everything I'm doing and sink 1 hour of my life into an impulse decision to watch this? Yes. Yes I am

it's ashame the majority of Catholics will never experience the majesty, reverance, respectfulness​, and beauty of the Latin Mass. A beautiful way to worship Our Lord.

This is the way it was meant to be. The priest was supposed to lead us all into prayer to God - that's why he faced the altar, not the parishioners. By facing the parishioners the focus of the congregation was on the priest, not on God. When the priest faced the altar we were ALL experiencing God together. The focus was on God. The priest only faced the congregation during the homily and when he administered the eucharist. This is so beautiful.

I am a roman catholic, and I attend the traditional latin mass every week. I knew all of these hymns and prayers.

Even though this production was done in Swedish, I understand the mass, thus, proving that we need to return to the Latin so that all may attend anywhere they go on the face of the earth.

This is wonderful. I attend the Latin Mass in 2021, and I would be able to attend the Mass with people from 500 years ago. This shows the Catholicity of the Rite, its Universality, not only in space, but also in time.

6:42 Asperges me 11:30 Kyrie 13:20 Gloria 18:55 Alleluia 20:50 Lectio Divina 23:08 Credo 40:17 Sursum Corda 42:12 Sanctus 42:50 Benedictus 47:23 Pater Noster 48:56 Agnus Dei 55:06 Ite Missa est

As a music specialist, it would be criminal of me not to inform the blog here that in my humble opinion all the chants are from the Missale Romanum or the local breviary which would have had many Roman chants in it. What is haunting is the silence and the richness of the meagre resources. It is a simple but incredible achievement.

As a regular Latin Mass goer, I feel totally at home with this video and understand everything about it...and that is so beautiful and so Catholic! Imagine how many Saints can say the same!

OMG, I'm actually understanding the latin speech based on what I hear every sunday at Mass! (no, I haven't studied latin)

My translation of fr Piltz words for those interested: "500 years ago, the universe seemed much more intelligible than to us. The whole existence was more boxed in and framed in a long line of ceremonies and behaviors which for the people at that time was self-evident. The most important in all this was the Holy Mass, that crown of loaded words and actions that surrounded the central mystery of the christian faith, that Jesus again became human, under the gestalt of bread and wine. We have reconstructed a high Mass from 500 years ago in a regular Swedish parish church, in Endre church about about a mile east from Visby, Gotland. We imagine that we participate in this High Mass an autumn sunday in the middle of the 1400s. It is the people of the village that participates in clothes typical to that time and we have to the best of our abilities tried to reconstruct how a Mass was carried out in the diocese of Linköping at that time. Gotland at that time was part of the diocese of Linköping. The mass was celebrated in an incomprehensible language for the people at that time, Latin. But at that time, mass was not understood as a communication of information, but rather as worship in front of a secret. Just as we can't describe what is fascinating about a melody or a face, in the same way we dont need to understand or describe that which is the central mystery of the universe. The people of the parish are waiting for the central moment when the bread and the wine is transformed to the body and blood of Christ. The priest is helped by an altar boy, perhaps a talented youth who the priest discovered and who eventually will be sent to Linköping to attend the cathedral school. The songs, mostly out of the Bible, is sung by the cantor at the village. We dont know exactly how the music was conducted in the churches of the middle ages, maybe Endre parish was paricularly lucky to have a qualified cantor as we will see now. The parish mass on a sunday began with the priest sprinkling holy water on the congregation, this served as a reminder that through their baptism they were now members of the Christian church. The holy water should drive away all the forces of evil. Let us now place ourselves in the middle ages, let us try to apprehend the atmosphere in a normal Swedish parish church in a time before man seemed like he was cast out in a desolate and cold space. In a time when Europe was one unit and when the central mystery which everything revolved around was that Christ, through Virgin Mary, had become human, had died and ressurrected for all."

I pray that one day, the Traditional Latin Mass will be restored!

We sing the same introit NOW as was sung then. This eternal liturgy shows the power, efficacy and legitimacy of the old Mass. May it return everywhere throughout Christendom

Mass was changed when I was about 6 years old. My mom said, "Oh no, I don't think so!" and we never went back. Abuses and novelties have multiplied in these fifty some odd years. Let them knock themselves out, they will be back some day. In the meantime, I have my Tridentine Mass. This is our inheritance as Roman Catholics.

This can’t be a Mass, surely? I mean, people are actually praying before and after Mass (not having a loud chat to everyone), the priest didn’t tell any jokes, there were no pop songs or guitars, people received Holy Communion in a pious way, the Host wasn’t dropped on trodden on, there was no clapping, people stayed around and prayed after Mass etc etc.

This is a Swedish production, had no idea it existed thanks for digging it up! Catholics are nowadays (after persecution) a small minority in my country and our priesthood seems sometimes overwhelmed by the amount of work they do for their parishes; and yet I have heard none complain. Keep them in your prayers but more so of course parishes in other parts of the world that suffer persecution more immediately.

I Remember n my childhood, Latin mass,The way we respect to the holy sacrament,Ladies are covering their head,etc etc,Now everything is changed,I wish that days should come back

This video was made together with the Parrish, Kristi Lekamens Katolska församling i Visby, and sung in one of the medival churches of the Island of Gotland. Anders Piltz, the Priest is a proffesor of latin in Lunds University and also a Catholic Priest. The Cantor is Mattias Östborn also Cantor at the Catholic church of Visby. Al this happend some years ago.

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM CHRISTIAN, BUT NOT CATHOLIC, YET I HAVE LONG APPRECIATED THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS A STARK REMINDER OF WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE FOR TIME IMMEMORIAL, BEFORE THE CHEAP TACKY MODERN WORLD THAT WE KNOW WAS EVEN A DREAM IN ANYONE'S MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I only started going to the traditional latin mass 7 months ago and I understand what's happening for the most part without my missal. We really need to not let the extraordinary form die.

I am following the Mass 18th Sunday After Pentecost. Da Pacem. Amazing! This was celebrated in Year 1400 still the same in 2022? Mass never changed! All prayers are exactly the same. I am following it in my St. Andrew Daily Missal in Latin and English. Oh My So Beautiful!!! Jesus is the same yesterday , today, and forever. Blessed be God forever and ever!!!!

Europe, what have you done with your Baptism ... Very beautiful service. I'm Russian, and brought up in the Orthodox tradition. And this service of the 15th century I really liked, apparently, because it is very similar to the Orthodox Liturgy.

As someone who's interested in both history and historical linguistics, and as someone who's studied Latin for four years, this is really interesting to watch.

There is an immense sense of sacred!

"My spirit rejoices in God my Saviour." I can fully understand this response of Mary in the temple after viewing this worship of God. The Mass was never broken and did not need to be "fixed." From a purely cultural standpoint, the modesty of the clothing brings out the character in the faces of the men, and the beauty in the faces of the women. Thank you for giving us this worship "in the beauty of holiness."

Note the following differences between this mass and some masses in our time: 1. People praying in the church, not socialising, not swapping jokes or stories, but devoutly praying. 2. The ladies have their heads covered. I have gone to traditional masses where the ladies were no veil. 3. No humour. No jokes. No anecdotes. Just the mass, and that is it. 4. No extraneous music. No pianos, flutes, guitars, drums, or even organ. Just Gregorian chant. 5. No "altar girls", "inclusive language", lectors (

When Catholicism looks like this again, I will be interested. Nothing more and nothing less will save this religion and bring God's mercy than proper practice of the Faith

Almost word for word to the Holy Mass I attend every Sunday.

Dear Lord, bring back this form of mass and save us from the desecration’s of the Vatican II lords supper. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Ora Pro Nobis.

The Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Chicago use another Latin variant that is worth experiencing. The monks' chant is similar to this cantor.

Truly, The Mass is the pinnacle of what a mere human could have ever offered to God as a token of praise, respect and worship. God, help us now!

This is one of the best videos I have seen. Thanks to who ever thought to put this up for the world to see. This truly is like going back in time. The monk who is singing is incredible.

Thanks for this video. The Latin mass was my Aunt’s favourite. She just passed on November 11, 2021 at 93. It’s a gift to hear these prayers 🙏

Its interesting that they used a barrier similar to the iconostasis thats in the Orthodox Churches. Maybe they should bring it back for more reverence.

I can't, for the love of God, understand how anyone would abolish this.

This is some truly serious celebration, not the joke we have today. Amazing ! What have we falling in to ?

Very nice, thank you for posting this. I go only to the latin mass and it's nice to see pretty much nothing has changed for this form :)

Mein Kompliment an die Darsteller und Regie des Videos. Alles ist sehr gut und autentisch dargestellt, sogar an der Aussprache des Lateins könnten sich viele Priester in Deutschland ein Beispiel nehmen. Für mich als Kantor des Gregorianischen Chorals ist dieser Blick in die vortridentinische Vergangenheit eine anschauliche Bestätigung für unser kontinuierliches heutiges Tun.

This is truly a beautiful experience. Thank you so much for sharing. May God bless you and your channel!

How in the name of God did the Roman Catholic Church destroy this incredible ritual=

Very beautiful, very moving. Thank you for posting this.

Henry V attended 3 masses daily in succession. Well, no wonder. I would too.

Thank you so much for posting this! I've compared missals from this period with the Tridentine, but seeing it really brings the similarities and differences to life.

They wouldn’t have been seated during any Mass prior to the 16th century, except in parts of the British Isles and even there that didn’t even begin to appear in some parishes until the 13th century. Pews are something we actually got from the Protestant reformation.

Literally, this is one of the MOST AWESOME videos I have seen on KZfaq XD I'm such a Catholic geek XD lol

Thank you for this. I’ve been searching for a video like this. Once again THANK YOU.

This is beyond wonderful - thank you so much for sharing this!

It is a shame that the pope is restricting the latin mass even tagging it as divisive. But in actuallity the latin mass is uniting. I travel a lot, imagine if the latin mass was said universally instead of the vernacular every catholic can attend a mass anywhere and understand it!

This is beautiful. I wish I could have a recording of the cantor, he is excellent. Thank you!

We need to bring this back. This is absolutely a beautiful way to worship the Lord. No other religion can ever touch the majesty and beauty of the Latin mass.

Always so interesting how the farther back in time you go the clearer you see the similarities between Western and Eastern Christianity.

As a Catholic, while watching this video it feels like that im looking back to my ancestors on how they celebrated the mass before.BTW I ONLY ATTENDED LATIN MASS.

I think all the Cardinals and the Curia out to come to a small church in their restaurant gear and sit and experience this, then the change back that the Catholic church so badly needs would come to pass. An amazing, miraculous, blessed re-enactment. I weep everytime I see it, how simple, how clean, how without any pride, so unpretentious, so gratifying and edifying. Oremus.

This video was made with the help of the parish of Kristi Lekamens Katolska församling i Visby, (The Church of the Body of Christ, diocese of Visby, Sweden) and was sung in a medieval church on the Island of Gotland. The celebrant is Father Anders Piltz, who is a Catholic priest as well as a professor of Latin at Lunds University. The Cantor is Mattias Östborn. Though externally a recreation, I assume that this is a real, valid Mass, as it was said by a real Catholic priest? I would also respectfully note one inaccuracy: at one point we see congregants rise up from sitting on benches or stools. For the first 1,400 years of Christianity, naves in churches did NOT have seating, except for a bench or two along the walls for the elderly and infirm. People were otherwise free to move around the church to light candles, venerate sacred images, etc., and this holds true today in some conservative Orthodox churches. Seating in churches didn’t really common until after the Reformation, when long sermons (which replaced the Mass and other prior devotions) made parishioners bored or tired enough to wish they were sitting down! Even Luther attended services, probably for his entire life, in churches that had no seating.

Thanks be to God that this Beautiful Mass is coming back to us today! I attend every sunday at the Beautiful St. Francis de Sales and get to take part in the beauty that is the tridentine Mass. Thanks be to God!

Thank you for your posting this, I would love to attend this Mass. Praise to the Lord our God!

I spent a long time looking at Catholicism, but was eventually drawn towards Orthodoxy where I am today. But I find it still so heartbreaking to my Catholic friends in the faith who suffer so much at the hands of liturgy that can be described as nothiing short of ugly. The NO has caused so much harm to the faithful, and those who care little for liturgy are the ones in charge of maintaining it. What is even more sad is that this video is labeled as historic. This simply is not how the mass is celebrated anymore save for a few pockets here and there. This beautiful expression of the faith has been lost to the corners of history, and exists only as a memory of a memory. I pray that there is a revival and love for the need of beauty in worship. Beauty will save the world

Someone’s I can’t comprehend why I have to justify why some feel this is superior to contemporary, evangelical services. There’s so much power in reverent worship, so much is felt in the silence. You don’t get that feeling of awe and might, those moments to meditate and reflect on God. Plus so much of modern Christianity is so cheap and cringe, emotionally charged, a product of the times. This is timeless, God is timeless. No brainer.

No matter where in the world the Canon is the same whether be in Rome or here in my home country. Our unity is expressed in the Language of the Church. :)

I would leave the Anglican Communion for Rome if Roman Catholic churches still widely practiced this Mass. My Anglo-Catholic church has more traditional Catholic worship & liturgy than my local RC churches!

Oh why did they ever end this type of Mass? (except in certain parishes). The NO looks completely Protestant next to this :-(

I was able to follow most of it using a 1962 roman missal. This was very beautiful. I appreciate it. Thanks. If you are looking to do a sequel I'd be very interested in watching a Nuptial Mass, circa 1450.

Beautiful! Nice gregorian melodyes!

Beautiful, wonderful! Tradition is something so sublime and timeless that one can notice the few and small changes that the liturgy had before the Second Vatican Council.

Good work! Creating even the sermon... 👍

Beautiful dedication!

An excellent reproduction. Some extended commentary on the various parts, and their relation to the eventual Tridentine model, would be most illuminating.

this is exactly how I hear mass on Sunday. I love the Extraordinary form Mass.

Thank you very much for this video... from Manila, Philippines.

The priest of this Mass is Fr Anders Piltz, there is an article about him on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Piltz

Not that much different from mass in the extraordinary form today, although the acolyte was extremely good at what he was doing.

Wow, amazing how at that time the Catholic mass was way closer to the Orthodox liturgy than nowadays! Thank you for this video!

Beautiful, glorious, annointed, revelationous...

Beautiful reenactment of the Traditional Mass! What a sacrality

This is absolutely beautiful. It is so much better than the BS Novus Ordo.

Wow! An iconostasis without icons, but a closer approximation to the design of the Temple with the Holy of Holies somewhat separating the people from the inner sanctum. After Pascha we keep open the doors of the altar space to show the mystery to the people during the joyful post Paschal period. This makes me want to attend an Orthodox Western Rite Divine Liturgy. 🙏🏻☦️🙏🏻 As a former Roman Catholic whose father’s Faith was almost wrecked by V2, but who died in the Sacraments of his beloved Roman Catholic Church, this gives hope.

Lovely, Holy & Sacred! Thankyou & many blessings...

That was absolutely beautiful!

The priest...his Latin is good and his chanting is good...as is the cantor. I understand a lot of the Latin because I used to read it every Sunday.

It's amazing how it's barely changed . Clearly divine

As someone who has done lots of family research it was cool to discover a link to 2 distant relatives who both were Roman Catholic clergymen (many kinsmen have been priests even after that) in the same time period (15th century), and now see how they would have served in mass . One was the last RC bishop of Turku/Åbo before the reformation and the second a priest in Stockholm.

One thing I notice about this Mass is that it is shorter than some Novus Ordo masses I have attended. The problem begins when some of the unneeded pleasantaries by the priest during the beginning and then some of them preach lengthy sermons. And then there is this choirs that sing modern songs, mostly praise and worship songs lifted from the Protestants.

Oh, I almost forgot, no infernal charismatics raising their hands as if to signal a touchdown! I have seen that at Latin Mass as well!

Fascinating!

As a Greek Orthodox Christian, the Ancient Western Liturgy is way closer to the Orthodox Divine Liturgy than the Modern Catholic Liturgy. Simply beautiful!!!

Yo tengo sesenta y dos años y ahora la he descubierto y es maravillosa yo me había alejado de la iglesia pero ahora he regresado, me encanta y que sea en latín gracias muchas gracias desde España saludos 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇪🇦🇪🇦

truly beautiful. Maybe the Church can return to this one day.

Almost the same as in my Latin Mass community today in Poland, however some parts we sign together. Truly universal (i.e. catholic) Mass, not only geographically but also crossing the boarders of time. I think our community in Poland in 21st century has more common understanding of the Catholic Church with 15th century village community in Sweden than with most bishops (including this one in Rome) currently.

Very beautiful and moving. Very much like the Holy Latin Mass of today which is still very much with us.

The moment we come back to this I'll go to church every Sunday.

Father Anders was my confirmation priest! 🤓 BTW, here the Lectio Divina, Credo, Pater Noster, and Ave Maria, are all delivered in medieval Swedish for added realism. But other than the - very appreciated - "LARP" elements, it's pretty much the 1962 Mass..!

Apart from the Introit and psalms/responses/readings etc which change daily this is like the mass I would normally attend daily. God willing the monastery churches will soon be open to those from without the enclosed walls soon. The main parts of the service were unchanged from today, but then the mass itself is over 1000 years old, and it really hasn't changed. Deo gratis.

Wow! This is so beautiful and timeless, I go every Sunday to a traditional mass when possible and I see it's nearly exactly the same. I feel sad now because the novus ordus changed this a lot. People from that time would find the current mass very strange and wouldn't understand what's going on because it is not in Latin anymore. Back then a person from any country in the world could find the same mass in any other place.

Meravigliosa! GRAZIE!

The fact that so many Novus Ordo types hate this Nass tells more about them and where their interests lie than it does about the Mass.

If I’m not mistaken in the 15th century there were several approved rites, this was apparently the Roman rite, but at this time in parts of England the Sarum rite was in common use, there were several other National/regional rites in common use and various religious orders with their own rite (these wouldn’t be all that common for parish use). Rome clamped down in the late 16th century as part of the counter reformation taking strict control and making the Roman rite the universal usage.

Absolutely beautiful.

this is so beautiful

I attend the beautiful and sacred Holy Tridentine Mass at my local SSPX church. I feel so lucky and privileged to have tradition almost on my doorstep. The Holy 2,000 year old Holy Mass is the nearest thing to Heaven here on earth.