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Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrated a Solemn Pontifical Mass, a high Mass in what Benedict XVI termed the "extraordinary form," on Saturday, October 25, at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
The cardinal celebrated the Mass as part of the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage, an annual event since 2012 bringing together attendees of the Latin Mass, to Rome.
Summorum Pontificum is the name of a 2007 apostolic letter from Benedict XVI, granting priests permission to celebrate the Tridentine Mass (Latin Mass) privately, and "in parishes where a group of the faithful attached to the previous liturgical tradition stably exists, the parish priest should willingly accede to their requests to celebrate Holy Mass according to the rite of the 1962 Roman Missal."
This year marked the first time since 2022 that a Latin Mass using this rite has been permitted to be celebrated in St. Peter's Basilica as part of the pilgrimage.
"Thanks to Heaven and Pope Leo, to our holy spiritual and liturgical habits," said the website for the pilgrimage.
