Sung at St. Willibrord. Willibrord, Bishop of Utrecht, died in 739. Mozart died in 1791. Both were fluent in Latin. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes Laudate eum, omnes populi Quoniam confirmata est Super nos misericordia eius Et veritas, veritas Domini manet, manet in aeternum Gloria Patri et Filio Et Spiritui Sancto Sicut erat in principio Et nunc, et semper Et in saecula saeculorum Amen, Amen, Amen Praise the Lord, all ye nations, praise him, all ye peoples. For his loving mercy has been bestowed upon us, and the truth of the Lord endures for eternity. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. After Vatican II, Utrecht wanted to sell and demolish the Gothic revival church built in the years 1875-1877. Lay people and Father Winand Kotte (Assumptionists) bought the building and kept the interior intact. The SSPX offers the Latin Mass every Sunday at 5 pm, in a country where Catholicism is practically dead. Between 2008 and 2011 the number of parishes went from 326 to 48. Attendance at Sunday Mass was 13% in 2021 and, following COVID, is now 2.5%. And still the cardinal there thinks the drop has nothing to do with Vatican II. In the real world, he would get the boot.
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