Traditional Latin Mass

English

Alternative forms

• TLM (initialism)

Proper noun

the Traditional Latin Mass

1. (Roman Catholicism) The form of the Roman Rite Mass that was general before the Second Vatican Council, celebrated in the Latin language and now typically according to texts promulgated in 1962 (the Extraordinary Form).

   Synonym: Tridentine Mass

   • 2017, Matthew Arnold, Confessions of a Traditional Catholic, page 157:

     Then, on July 7, 2007, Benedict XVI promulgated his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, generally liberating the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass.

Noun

Traditional Latin Mass (plural Traditional Latin Masses)

1. (Roman Catholicism) A Mass celebrated in this form.
   • 2023, John Trigilio et al., Catholicism All-in-One for Dummies, →ISBN, page 283:

     In one case, in August 2022, one particular Chicago parish which typically celebrated Traditional Latin Masses, stated that they would suspend all public Masses because they would not adhere to Pope Francis’s new guidelines on the subject.