The Roman Rite is the liturgical rite used in the Diocese of Rome in the Catholic Church. It is by far the most widespread of the Latin liturgical rites used within the Western or Latin autonomous particular Church, the particular Church that itself is also called the Latin Rite. Like virtually all other liturgical rites, the Roman Rite has grown and been adapted over the centuries. The development of its Eucharistic liturgy can be divided into three stages: Pre-Tridentine, Tridentine, and the Post-Tridentine.
Under the conditions indicated in the document: Summorum Pontificum (2007), Pope Benedict XIV approved the continued use of the Tridentine Mass, as found in the 1962 Roman Missal, within certain limits. It is still authorized for use as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.
See the box to the right for an English translation of this Apostolic Letter, and in several of the books below.
Sacred then and sacred now: the return of the old Latin Mass / Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
The old mass and the new : explaining the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of Pope Benedict XVI / Marc Aillet
The forms and orders of Western liturgy from the tenth to the eighteenth century : a historical introduction and guide for students and musicians /
Corpus orationum / inchoante Eugenio Moeller, subsequente Ioanne Maria Clément ; totum opus perfecit Bertrandus Coppieters 't Wallant.
Liturgia horarum iuxta ritum Romanum.
Missale Romanum : ex decreto Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II instauratum : auctoritate Pauli PP. VI promulgatum : Ioannis Pauli PP. II cura recognitum.
Concordantia verbalia Missalis Romani. Partes euchologicae / ediderunt Thaddaus A. Schnitker et Wolfgang A. Slaby.
Concordantia et Indices Missalis Romani. Edited by Manlio Sodi and Alessandro Toniolo. 2002.
The July 7, 2007, document on the "extraordinary form" of the Roman Rite made the liturgy used before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council more accessible to the universal Church.
Tridentine Latin Mass
