{"id":18,"date":"2026-09-07T15:39:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/?p=18"},"modified":"2026-09-11T02:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:09:55","slug":"about-the-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"About the Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"__wbp_root\">\n<div class=\"site-container\">\n<header id=\"header\" class=\"site-header\" role=\"banner\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"title-area\">\n<h2 class=\"site-title\"><a title=\"Tridentine Mass Society of Madison\" href=\"http:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\" rel=\"home\">Tridentine Mass Society of Madison<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"site-description\">Dedicated to spreading and supporting the Extraordinary Form in the Diocese of Madison<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"banner\">\n<div class=\"wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"header-image\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150414050405im_\/\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cropped-1523225_372480389596418_7000046668577372509_o-e1422470317604.jpg\" alt=\"Dedicated to spreading and supporting the Extraordinary Form in the Diocese of Madison\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"site-inner\">\n<div class=\"wrap\"><main id=\"content\" class=\"content\" role=\"main\"><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-15\" class=\"entry page publish author-benyanke post-15\">\n<div class=\"entry-wrap\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">About the Society<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison, a 501(c)3 non-profit association founded in 2007 and approved by Bishop Morlino, is a private association of Catholic faithful dedicated to the preservation of the \u201cancient form of the Roman rite\u201d or Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, using the missal of 1962. The Society consists of lay Catholics drawn from every age group and walk of life who are \u201cstrongly attached to this usage of the Roman Rite,\u201d and who reside in the Diocese of Madison. The Society welcomes priests and religious who have great love and affection for this earlier liturgical form and would like remain faithful to tradition.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the Society is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assisting in the celebration and enhancing the Extraordinary Form\u00a0in the Diocese of Madison, such as the Mass and other liturgical celebrations as Vespers.<\/li>\n<li>Reaching out and providing support to other parishes in the Diocese of Madison, which are interested in celebrating it.<\/li>\n<li>Providing catechesis and education to those who want to know more about the <em>usus antiquior<\/em> and learn how to attend a Traditional Latin Mass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"site-inner\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<aside class=\"sidebar sidebar-primary widget-area\" role=\"complementary\">\n<section id=\"text-2\" class=\"widget widget-1 even widget-first widget_text\">\n<div class=\"widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"textwidget\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-wrap\">\n<p>Powered by Interserver.net<\/p>\n<div class=\"textwidget\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/interserver.net\">http:\/\/interserver.net<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"recent-posts-2\" class=\"widget widget-5 even widget-last widget_recent_entries\">\n<div class=\"widget-wrap\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tridentine Mass Society of Madison Dedicated to spreading and supporting the Extraordinary Form in the Diocese of Madison About the Society The Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison, a 501(c)3 non-profit association founded in 2007 and approved by Bishop Morlino, is a private association of Catholic faithful dedicated to the preservation of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}