“I cannot promise you a second spring. I can only promise you a hard slog. The external pressures on us will remain formidable. I hope and pray that this Mass strengthens you for this long struggle. The Tridentine Mass has many virtues; it is part of a noble tradition of worship. Through prayers, ritual and music it attempts very explicitly to convey the beauty of holiness, and especially through its decorum and dignity it helps to bring us to bow in worship before the invisible God, the All-Holy One.”
(Bishop George Pell, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, June 13th, 1992)