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Una Voce Columbus was founded in 2003 to help preserve and promote the traditional Latin Mass in Columbus, Ohio. This Mass is the extra-ordinary form of the Roman Rite offered at the request of Our Holy Father as he wrote in his apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum (2007). It is offered every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation, every 1st Saturday, and on three weekdays. It is also offered in most other major cities throughout Ohio and the world. We are dedicated to the dissemination of accurate information about this papally-approved rite- the traditional Latin Rite practiced by all Roman Catholics from ancient times up until the Second Vatican Council. We work for the day when all Catholics of our diocese and throughout our state will understand the legitimacy and incredible beauty of the Mass of our great Latin heritage which sustained our Saints, inspired our beautiful architecture and music, and connects us to our long-standing Catholic culture for the salvation of our souls and to the greater glory of God. |
THE HISTORY OF THE INDULT MASS & EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE ROMAN RITE IN COLUMBUS, OHIO We in the Diocese of Columbus are privileged to have the Mass of Tradition every Sunday, Holy Day, particular feast days, and on days of special occasion for the parish or pastor. We have had a number of vocations to religious life from the Latin Mass community. We continue to pray for the continued growth of traditional Catholicism in our community and hope for the day when a daily Latin Mass, daily exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, and all the Sacraments are returned to us within an established traditional Latin Mass parish with school. We must never neglect to thank Our Lord and Our Lady for interceding on our behalf before Our Heavenly Father for the privilege of attending the Mass of Tradition. We must cherish it always, teaching ourselves and our children to love God through this most blessed gift. The local bishop had received many individual letters asking for the traditional Mass going back many years. In response to these letters, many during the early 1980s, the bishop was moved to allowed the celebration of the TLM in 1985. The liturgy committee chair for the Diocese met with a representative of those desiring the TLM and gave specific conditions under which the community would have to abide. The first was that a letter requesting each and every traditional Latin Mass was to be submitted subject to the approval or disapproval of the bishop. The bishop would have complete control over time and place of each Mass as well as who would celebrate on a case by case basis. The community humbly followed these guidelines for two years and managed to schedule about twelve traditional Latin Masses in that time. These twelve Masses were said in a variety of locations including St. Therese of Lisieux Chapel, St. Charles School Chapel, and the St. Vincent Orphanage Chapel. More and more people then began requesting the establishment of a weekly Indult Mass to fulfill the Sunday obligation. The bishop, however, was not convinced of its necessity but did begin to allow a regular First Saturday Latin Mass, again at a variety of churches in the city. Many prayers were offered to the Virgin Mary at these Masses for the establishment of a regular Sunday obligation Mass. It is now known that during this time the bishop was in conversation with the priests of the North High Vicariate of Columbus discussing the possible establishment of a weekly Sunday Latin Mass. One priest was asked but hesitated and it was then that Fr. John Cody stepped forward to shepherd the Latin Mass community at St. Francis of Assisi in Victorian Village. Fr. Cody met with representatives of the Latin Mass community and worked out the details for a regular Sunday obligation Latin Mass which was said each Saturday at 4:00 PM. This began in 1995 and continued until (now) Monsignor Cody was moved to Holy Family Church in 1999. The pastor, Fr. Kevin Lutz, welcomed the Monsignor and the Latin Mass community and decided to move the TLM to Sunday morning at 8:30 AM (now 9:00)- a Sunday Mass after thirty years in absentia. Glory be to God ! In 2004, The Most Reverend James Griffin, Bishop of Columbus, granted permission for a monthly First Saturday traditional Latin Mass with devotions. This began in May of 2004 and continues to grow as a devotion of the faithful in Columbus. |
