BROOKLYN, New York (LifeSiteNews) — The Diocese of Brooklyn under Bishop Robert Brennan plans to limit the celebration of a Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) to two parishes, but he has also invited the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (ICKSP) into the diocese to take over its celebration at one of the parishes, LifeSiteNews learned.

The Catholic blog Rorate Caeli reported Sunday that parishioners of St. Cecilia Chapel were informed after Mass this past Sunday that the Tridentine Mass would no longer be celebrated there, beginning October 12. A spokesman for the Diocese of Brooklyn told LifeSiteNews in an email that the Mass was not suppressed, but the diocese is moving the celebration of Latin Masses to two parishes: Our Lady of Peace in Brooklyn, which has offered the TLM for 25 years, and St. Josaphat Church in Queens, which will be taken over by the ICKSP.

“Bishop Brennan very much wants to meet the needs of the people and has developed an approach that will be more sustainable,” the spokesman told LifeSite by email.

“The TLM Mass at the St. Cecilia site was averaging an attendance between 25 and 35 people and was served by a rotation of priests,” he added. “This can no longer continue because of the number of priests available. That is why Bishop Brennan has gone to this site model.”

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However, a member of St. Cecilia’s Latin Mass congregation told the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny blog that while attendance is indeed low, about a third of the congregants are new faces each Sunday and noted the chapel’s Novus Ordo Masses have similarly low attendance.

It’s also worth noting that Our Lady of Peace Church is an approximately 30-minute drive from St. Cecilia, and St. Josaphat is nearly an hour away. The only two parishes that will offer the TLM are also about an hour’s drive from one another.

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Since the promulgation of Pope Francis’ 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, which heavily restricted the celebration of the Tridentine Mass, several bishops across the globe have restricted its celebration or reduced the number of parishes that are permitted to celebrate the TLM.

In one recent case, Bishop Michael Martin, OFM, of Charlotte, North Carolina, set off a firestorm of controversy when he announced in May the forthcoming closure of four Latin Masses throughout the diocese in accordance with Traditionis Custodes, which states that TLMs are not to be celebrated in “parochial” churches.

After intense backlash, Martin postponed the planned merger of the Latin TLMs from July to October. Just days before the merger was set to take effect, the bishop announced in a letter that the newly renovated Little Flower Chapel, which will replace the four suppressed congregations, is not intended to accommodate all the faithful who wish to attend the ancient Roman liturgy.

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Speaking about Traditionis Custodes, Cardinal Raymond Burke has stressed that the Latin Mass was “never juridically abrogated,” and that it is not permissible for a Pope to pretend to wield “absolute power” to “eradicate a liturgical discipline.”

Liturgical scholar Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has also implored priests to resist the Latin Mass-throttling of the motu proprio and its accompanying Responsa ad dubia “regardless of threats or penalties,” because obedience to these documents would undermine the very mission of the holy Catholic Church.