A month ago, the German Trappist Abbey of Mariawald was granted the privilege to return to the Liturgy and the Observance in use in the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) until 1963/64 (cf. NLM articles
here and
here). Now
the Abbey reports that on 18 December, for the first time since the reforms, the conventual Mass was sung according to the
usus antiquior in the Abbey church. The Mass was sung by Rev. Fr. Jehan de Belleville OSB of the
Benedictines of the Immaculate in Villatalla, Italy (formerly of Le Barroux, France), who had been a guest of the convent for a few days - and, it may be assumed, instructed them about traditional monastic life. As the Trappists announce,
The next conventual Mass according to the Missal of our Sacred Order of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance will be celebrated in January.
