REGINA: How would you characterize the growth in the TLM in Germany?
When we started in 1990, there were exactly four TLMs available in all of Germany. Today there are now approximately 90 TLMs in Germany -- and 36 in Austria, 37 in Switzerland, 4 in Lichtenstein, 4 in Alsace, 1 in Luxembourg 4 in the South Tyrol , 17 in Belgium and 12 in the Netherlands.
Of course, these Masses are not always regularly scheduled on Sundays.
REGINA: That is significant growth! How has this been accomplished?
Monika: A lot of hard work on the part of many, many laypersons and priests. Most have had to face a real struggle to find a church where the Rite can be celebrated and a priest who was willing to be trained and to offer the Mass.
Then of course many bishops will forbid the advertisement of the Mass, so the only way the faithful can hear of it is through word of mouth.
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