In Memory of Mons. Angelo Amodeo: Video of an Ambrosian Pontifical Mass

Monsignor remained a strong singer all of his life, and celebrated Mass in a way that showed how thoroughly he loved and lived the liturgy; he was always dignified, but completely natural, and precise, but completely graceful. He tended to begin his sermons rather slowly, and in what seemed at first a rather disjointed fashion, but I soon learned that he would always bring the seemingly disparate threads of his discourse together into something that was not just theologically useful to hear, but genuinely beautiful.

We are very pleased to share this video of a Mass which he celebrated in 2008 for his jubilee of priestly ordination (sensu largo), a Pontifical Mass ad instar abbatum. This privilege was granted to all canons of the cathedral of Milan when celebrating within the territory of the archdiocese, by a brief of Pope Clement XI, June 15, 1716, following the same privilege granted to abbots by Pope Alexander VII via an instruction of the Sacred Congregation of Rites on Sept. 27, 1659. (Privileges of this kind were not particularly rare back in the day; certain classes of the higher officials in the Roman Curia had the same privilege everywhere outside the diocese of Rome, and many cathedral chapters had the use of the miter, etc.) The Mass is a votive Mass of Ss Peter and Paul; the church is that of an old abbey in a town called Meda, about 15 miles north of Milan.