French Priest Moves to Ireland to Meet Demand for Latin Mass

The Irish blog Clerical Whispers is reporting that:

A French priest who travels to Limerick once a month to celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form has decided to move to Ireland because of the increase in demand for the service.

Canon Wulfran Lebocq, of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, has been travelling to Limerick from his seminary in Italy to celebrate Mass every third Sunday in St Patrick's Church.

The Institute has been working in the area for the last three years, with the consent of Bishop Donal Murray. It is believed that about 100 people now attend the traditional Mass.

Once he settles in Limerick next year Canon Lebocq hopes to celebrate a weekly Mass.

Weekly Mass

''It depends on the number of ordinations we have this year. Whether we increase our number of services is also entirely at the will of the bishop, but we would like to get to a point where we have weekly Masses.''

Upcoming masses

The Institute of Christ the King will be holding Mass in the Extraordinary Form at St Patrick's Church, Dublin Road, Limerick on April 19, May 17 and June 21 at 11.15am.

Founded in 1990, the Institute works to promote the use of the traditional Latin Rite Mass.

The Institute of Christ the King was obviously delighted with this development and is eagerly promoting their New Apostolate in Ireland...and rightly so.

In a recent post, I noted the hard work that had been done on the Emerald Isle to re-establish the Latin Mass. This is more exciting evidence of a shift that will bring health and healing to the Irish culture.

Nice to see Mother Church giving back to Ireland, after all the contributions made by Ireland throughout the ages.