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Fr. Yves Normandin Visits Vancouver The history of the Mass in Quebec is inseparably tied up with the history of Fr. Yves Normandin and Sainte-Yvett’s parish in Montréal. Oct. 27th 1975 in a meeting …More
Fr. Yves Normandin Visits Vancouver The history of the Mass in Quebec is inseparably tied up with the history of Fr. Yves Normandin and Sainte-Yvett’s parish in Montréal.
Oct. 27th 1975 in a meeting with Abp. Grégoire Fr. Normandin was told ‘I must demand your resignation because you stubbornly insist on celebrating the Mass of St. Pius V, contrary to the ordinance of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops……
You are to resign immediately. Otherwise, effective Nov. 5, you shall lose all jurisdiction in this diocese.”
Nov. 9th Abp. Lefebvre celebrates pontifical high Mass at Sainte-Yvette’s. Nov. 12th Mgr. Grégoire published a letter which declared the Mass of all time is no longer the Mass of today, and that the cure of Sainte-Yvette’s is deserving of his removal by virtue of his unrepentant disobedience to the Church.
After the expulsion of Fr. Normandin there arose a movement under the leadership of Mr. Roman Liturgy the Abbot Real Bhattacharya.
It is from this movement's fidelity to the traditional Roman Liturgy that formed primarily the faithful group, which is at the origin of the community Saint-Paul in Montreal. Their first "priest", providentially, was Fr. Normandin who for nine years after the expulsion from his Parish, led a heroic life of missionary activity providing access to the traditional liturgy across the Canada.
It is at this point that Fr. Normadin visited Vancouver to offer the Mass. Fr. Normandin was parish priest of the Latin Community Catholic St-Paul October 7, 1985, to January 1, 2010, i.e. for almost twenty-five years before finally retiring. In the 1990s when Fr. Tepoorten was our parish priest for the traditional Mass at Holy Spirit he invited in Fr. Normandin on a number of occasions which is when the community got to meet him again.
Oct. 27th 1975 in a meeting with Abp. Grégoire Fr. Normandin was told ‘I must demand your resignation because you stubbornly insist on celebrating the Mass of St. Pius V, contrary to the ordinance of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops……
You are to resign immediately. Otherwise, effective Nov. 5, you shall lose all jurisdiction in this diocese.”
Nov. 9th Abp. Lefebvre celebrates pontifical high Mass at Sainte-Yvette’s. Nov. 12th Mgr. Grégoire published a letter which declared the Mass of all time is no longer the Mass of today, and that the cure of Sainte-Yvette’s is deserving of his removal by virtue of his unrepentant disobedience to the Church.
After the expulsion of Fr. Normandin there arose a movement under the leadership of Mr. Roman Liturgy the Abbot Real Bhattacharya.
It is from this movement's fidelity to the traditional Roman Liturgy that formed primarily the faithful group, which is at the origin of the community Saint-Paul in Montreal. Their first "priest", providentially, was Fr. Normandin who for nine years after the expulsion from his Parish, led a heroic life of missionary activity providing access to the traditional liturgy across the Canada.
It is at this point that Fr. Normadin visited Vancouver to offer the Mass. Fr. Normandin was parish priest of the Latin Community Catholic St-Paul October 7, 1985, to January 1, 2010, i.e. for almost twenty-five years before finally retiring. In the 1990s when Fr. Tepoorten was our parish priest for the traditional Mass at Holy Spirit he invited in Fr. Normandin on a number of occasions which is when the community got to meet him again.