Overview
- The Mass capped the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage, drawing reported attendance of over 2,000 at the Altar of the Chair with roughly 200 concelebrating priests.
- Cardinal Matteo Zuppi had presided at Tridentine vespers the previous day at San Lorenzo in Lucina, and he later exchanged a public greeting with Cardinal Burke.
- Coverage emphasized that the celebration was permitted within the framework shaped by Traditionis Custodes, describing it as notable but not a turning point.
- The liturgy followed the pre‑Vatican II form, lasting about two and a half hours with hymns, incense, and ad orientem celebration.
- In his homily, Burke invoked Our Lady of Fatima and warned about atheist communism and secularizing influences, while participants included Cardinals Ernest Simoni and Walter Brandmüller.