{"id":88459,"date":"2017-05-04T14:02:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=88459"},"modified":"2021-10-15T17:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T00:36:50","slug":"serving-the-extraordinary-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/serving-the-extraordinary-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Serving the Extraordinary Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>oday for the first time I served at low Mass in the Extraordinary Form. It was a private Mass, the regularly scheduled daily Mass having ended about twenty minutes before. It was beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Father Insco has been training me for a while now. I did flub up a few things at the very end, and my memorization is <em>terrible<\/em>. I clutched my &#8220;cheat sheet&#8221; pamphlet tightly throughout most of the Mass. I will have to work on that.<\/p>\n<p>No photo, alas, but here is an older photo of the church.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85900\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/notes-on-the-transitions-number-12-in-a-series\/first-fssp-mass\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85900\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85900\" data-attachment-id=\"85900\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/notes-on-the-transitions-number-12-in-a-series\/first-fssp-mass\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/First-FSSP-Mass.jpg?fit=960%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"First FSSP Mass\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;First FSSP Mass at Saint Joseph, Tacoma &amp;#8211; 01 October 2015 (photo by Elizabeth McNally)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/First-FSSP-Mass.jpg?fit=860%2C484&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/First-FSSP-Mass.jpg?resize=860%2C484\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/First-FSSP-Mass.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/First-FSSP-Mass.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/First-FSSP-Mass.jpg?resize=240%2C135&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First FSSP Mass at Saint Joseph, Tacoma &#8211; 01 October 2015 <br \/>(photo by Elizabeth McNally)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today for the first time I served at low Mass in the Extraordinary Form. It was a private Mass, the regularly scheduled daily Mass having ended about twenty minutes before. It was beautiful. Father Insco has been training me for a while now. I did flub up a few things at the very end, and my memorization is terrible. I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,68,120,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","category-rev-caleb-insco-fssp","category-saint-joseph-parish-in-tacoma","category-sacred-liturgy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/First-FSSP-Mass.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-n0L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87852,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/thank-you-fr-insco\/","url_meta":{"origin":88459,"position":0},"title":"Thank you, Fr. 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