About the Church

Designed as a Church of Ireland, and originally opened for public worship on 23 May 1860; consecrated 16 June 1864, it is now used by a conservative Catholic group who follow the Latin Rite, The Society of Saint Pius X. The interior was reordered by Richard Orpen. The interior fittings are eclectic: the main altar was designed by R.M. Butler for the Dominican Convent in Eccles Street; the side altar comes from the Jesuit house at Rathfarnham Castle; and the Stations of the Cross came from a country church.

About The Society of Saint Pius X

Founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (+ 1991), the Society of St. Pius X is a priestly society of common life without vows, like the Society of the Foreign Missions of Paris. Its main objective is to provide training for the Catholic priesthood without any trace of Modernism in doctrine, morals or worship. The Society was originally erected in Fribourg, Switzerland by Bishop Francois Charriere, of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg on 1st November, 1970.
Today the Society is working in some sixty countries, everywhere providing the unchanging Catholic doctrine, the Mass of All Time, the liturgy, as well as the sacraments in their traditional form, the true channels of grace and of salvation.  It has six international priestly seminaries established on four continents. Its ministry is a parish-model ministry exercised through its priories where the member priests live in common, an important aspect of the priestly life in the SSPX. It also devotes itself to many other forms of apostolate and works of charity: third orders, chaplaincies, houses for spiritual retreats, primary and secondary schools, colleges, retirement homes, clinics, missions, as well as various works of charity.
In Great Britain and Ireland, the Society's Priests regularly offer the traditional Latin Mass in some 30 churches, chapels and Mass centres. Saint Michael's School provides a Catholic education for junior and senior boys and junior girls. There is a Retreat House at Bristol. Publications include a regular newsletter and a quarterly magazine, "Mater Dei".
The District also has an apostolate in Scandinavia, covering Sweden, Norway and Denmark

About The Latin Mass

This is the Mass of the Roman rite which has been celebrated throughout the world up until 1969. The Traditional Latin Mass is sometimes (although mistakenly) referred to as the Tridentine Mass, because the Roman Missal was codified by Pope Saint Pius V, at the specific request of the Fathers of the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century (the adjective 'Tridentine' is derived from the name Trent). It is important to recall, however, that what Pius V published in 1570 was a Missal based upon the continuous liturgical practice of the Church since the time of Pope Saint Gregory the Great in the sixth century.
The Traditional Latin Mass has sustained the Western Church for the last 1,500 years.
It is this Mass which has inspired all the great saints and martyrs of the Church and nourished the faith of countless generations of the faithful. It is the Mass that was taken by missionaries all over the world in order to win souls for Christ.
The Traditional Latin Mass is also called the Mass of the Roman Rite. After the Council of Trent Pope Saint Pius V issued the Bull Quo Primum Tempore (1570) which promulgated the Roman Mass now codified for the first time in the Church's history. The Bull also guaranteed use of the Roman Rite in perpetuity, and confirmed the traditional rites of various religious orders (such as the Dominicans) where these had been in use for at least 200 years.

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