The Eastern US Province of Dominicans have just launched a new Dominican Rite Tutorial Website for the Dominican Rite Mass of 1962 complete with HD video, video commentary, and detailed rubrics in English.
In the tutorial section, there are some Dominican Friar icons. When you click these, a popup appears with texts from St Thomas Aquinas, St Albert the Great, and St Vincent Ferrer on the ceremonies of the Dominican Mass. The Dominican Rite was codified in 1256 and was therefore old enough to continue being used after the Tridentine Missal was codified. It is quite something to ponder that when you attend the classical Dominican Rite, you are participating in Mass just as it was celebrated by St Thomas Aquinas.
I am not familiar with the Dominican rite and this tutorial will be a great help for me in understanding this important variant within the family of Western rites of Mass.
3 comments:
Awesome! I never knew the Dominican Rite was that old.
Dear Father,
Just to let your readers know that on the Pacific Coast, the Western Dominican Province has regular celebration of the traditional Dominican Rite at Anchorage AK, at San Buenaventura Mission in South CA and at Holy Rosary Church in Portland OR. There have been occasional celebrations at our houses in San Francisco, Oakland, and Seattle. I have also celebrated it as a supply priest in Nappa and Petaluma CA.
I expect that with time there will be celebrations in St. Joseph Province too.
Sadly, though, it may be a while before you can attend it in England : at present the Province has a policy of not celebrating it publicly (although I have heard of one or two exceptions to that), as the current Master of the Order does not - I'm told - much like it.
However, there is an elective General Chapter this summer, so who knows what may happen thereafter !
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