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I created this picture myself and release it to the public domain. It was taken by a Catholic friend of mine in 1972, who gave permission for public use. The picture is permitted to be used freely throughout the public realm, provided source (=this wikipedia URL) is given. Private production.

The pictura shows Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, founder of Opus Dei, celebrating the Roman Catholic Mass, in the Tridentina (traditional Latin) rite, in Rome, 1972.

"After a short period of trying to celebrate the Novus Ordo Missae, St. Escriva de Balaguer said he could no longer continue with the new rite, and returned to the accustomed Tridentine Mass of his priestly ordination and most years of pastoral life. He continued to celebrate that rite ad-orientem until his death in Rome in the year 1975, despite the suppression of the Tridentine rite and its persecuted adherents encountered." (Source: Queen of Angels, October 2004, January 2006.)

Note that the picture - according to one Wikipedian - contains nothing to indicate which form of the Mass St Josemaría was celebrating. It is not large enough to identify the Missal on the altar. The altar cards that, in accordance with the Tridentine Roman Missal's Rubricae generales Missalis, XX, were placed on the altar for Mass, and that in 1972 should still have been easily available, are absent, but St Josemaría probably knew by heart the prayers they contained. However, I, (Smith2006 18:27, 20 January 2007 (UTC)), state that I can see that the Missal used contains 2 columns with separate prayer sections and white spaces, only seen in the Tridentine Missal (e.g. here and here and here) and other pre-1970 Latin rite missals, but not in the vernacular or Latin versions of the official post-1969/1970 Mass of Paul VI in which prayers were printed all over the page and not in two colums. It cannot be a pocket missal used by Escriva, as it is too large for that. Also, a baroque or roccocco-styled middle Altar card might be seen in the middle of the altar, with a rather small text section. Furthermore Mons. Escrivá touches with his index fingers the altar during the offertory, indicative of the Tridentine liturgical prescriptions and rituals.

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