Thursday 7 February 2013

The Old Latin Mass Rock: Near Bantry, West Cork


Was absolutely thrilled to find this place.  I'd read about the Society of St. Pius X doing the Old Latin Mass on a Mass Rock in county Cork, and think that this may well be the actual place.


Yeah, for me, all the Mass Rock adornings and small statues look like the work of the Society of St. Pius X.


It's great to see that such places can still exist, especially when it is often claimed that we're living in a 'post-religious age'.


Would've absolutely loved to have seen an Old Latin Mass here, but I guess that they're few and far between.


Found the Old Latin Mass when I was 17 in about 1983, and felt truly at home imagining it being said here, near Bantry in West Cork. 

Absolutely love this place:  it is a place set apart, a sacred place where Catholics once secretly said Mass during penal times, and a place of refuge now, in our God-less, politically 'correct' times.

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