{"id":45602,"date":"2021-03-13T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=45602"},"modified":"2021-06-07T17:35:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T21:35:10","slug":"vatican-restricting-private-vatican-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/vatican-restricting-private-vatican-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Restricting Private Vatican Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From America:<\/p>\n<section class=\"block block-views block-views-blockarticle-image-block-1 clearfix\">\n<div class=\"views-element-container\">\n<div class=\"imageExpandableLead mt-5 view view-article-image view-id-article_image view-display-id-block_1 js-view-dom-id-3d62c30cb40e98ed68ea742e5001059a213e8f47ce8533cef6619b0c0f64feed\">\n<div class=\"view-content\">\n<div><a class=\"colorbox cboxElement\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/sites\/default\/files\/main_image\/2021\/03\/12\/20210125T0845-POPE-MASS-WORD-ANGELUS-1013560_0.JPG.JPG\" data-colorbox-gallery=\"gallery-article-240224-Z-RfNoLV2mY\" data-cbox-img-attrs=\"{&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-style-article-image-750-x-503-\" src=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_image_750_x_503_\/public\/main_image\/2021\/03\/12\/20210125T0845-POPE-MASS-WORD-ANGELUS-1013560_0.JPG.JPG.png?itok=dZ8_YoHX\" alt=\"\" width=\"709\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodearticlebody clearfix\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The Vatican\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/secretariat_state\/index.htm\">Secretariat of State<\/a>\u00a0has issued an instruction regarding the celebration of Mass in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, suppressing Masses said by a priest by himself, and restricting the celebration of the extraordinary form of Mass in the Latin rite to one altar in the crypt of the basilica.<\/p>\n<p>The instruction comes from the First Section of the Secretariat of State, which deals with the general affairs of the church and is headed by Venezuelan-born Archbishop Pe\u00f1a Parra. He is the third-highest ranking official in the Roman Curia and is known as the \u201csubstitute\u201d (or chief of staff).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <em> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/faith\/2021\/03\/12\/vatican-latin-mass-saint-peter-basilica-240224\">[For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>From Catholic News Agency:<\/p>\n<p>A new letter from the Vatican Secretariat of State has banned the private celebration of Masses at side altars in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, effective March 22.<\/p>\n<p>The regulation might seem tailored to meet COVID restrictions, as Italy prepares to tighten its pandemic measures once again. However, the new rule appears to be permanent. Another change &#8211; Mass offered in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite will be limited to the Clementine Chapel in the Vatican Grotto.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"church\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1615619467\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Vatican Restricting Private Vatican Masses\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From America: The Vatican\u2019s\u00a0Secretariat of State\u00a0has issued an instruction regarding the celebration of Mass in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, suppressing Masses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-church","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}