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A Scottish bishop has expanded the availability of Traditional Latin Masses in his diocese, ahead of an illicit episcopal consecration by a local traditionalist group.
Bishop Hugh Gilbert, O.S.B., of Aberdeen, Scotland, approved the offering of Traditional Latin Masses every Sunday at the Church of Our Lady of the Garioch and St. John the Evangelist in Fetternear, a hamlet in Aberdeenshire.
The Masses had been offered at the non-parochial church by members of the Congregation of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (Transalpine Redemptorists), a traditionalist community based on Papa Stronsay, a remote island that falls within the Aberdeen diocese’s boundaries.
But when the community’s leadership began to issue statements repudiating recent papal documents and suggesting that popes since Vatican Council II were illegitimate — a position known as sedevacantism — Gilbert asked a diocesan priest, Fr. Bruno Murphy, to offer the Masses instead.
The Traditional Latin Masses were previously offered once a month, but under the new arrangement they will be available every Sunday. The new celebrants will be Fr. Yousef Marie, F.SS.R., and Fr. Peter Mary, F.SS.R., who were members of the Papa Stronsay community but have dissociated themselves
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