Tridentine rite preservation

Tradition / belief In the Helian Way the Traditional Latin (Tridentine) Mass is kept as a sacrament: a living relic of Rome, preserved alongside the solar and pagan calendar. The founder's title Antonius Tridentinus Rex refers to it.

Historical basis

The rite was codified after the Council of Trent in the Missal of Pius V (Quo primum, 1570). Its roots go back to the Roman Canon of the 4th–7th centuries. Groups such as the Latin Mass Society (England, founded 1965) work to preserve it within the Catholic Church. The Helian Way is not affiliated with the Catholic Church or with any Latin Mass Society.

Helian practice

Tradition / belief Adherents hold that the Latin of the Mass, its orientation ad orientem (towards the rising Sun), and its antiquity preserve sacred power. In the Helian calendar this rite stands apart from the Catholic sanctoral cycle of saints. Recommended texts: the Missale Romanum 1570/1962 and Fortescue's The Mass: A Study of the Roman Liturgy (1912, archive.org).