Rome, Italy, Jun 11, 2019 / 08:01 am
The recently installed head of the Knights of Malta directed Monday that all liturgical ceremonies within the community must use the ordinary, and not the extraordinary, form of the Roman rite.
"I have thus decided, as supreme guarantor of the cohesion and communion of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem of which Providence made me Grand Master, that henceforth all the liturgical ceremonies within our Order must be performed according to the ordinary rite of the Church (rite of St. Paul VI) and not the extraordinary rite (Tridentine rite)," Fra' Giacomo Dalla Torre wrote in a June 10 letter to the order.
"This decision applies to all the official liturgical celebrations such as investitures, masses [sic] during our pilgrimages, memorial masses, [sic] as well as the feasts and solemnities of the Order."
Dalla Torre was elected grand master of the Knights of Malta in May 2018, after serving as interim leader for a little over a year.