The Monterey Chapter of the Latin Liturgy Association (LLA) is dedicated to promoting the use of Latin in the sacred liturgy. Membership in the LLA is open to all who promote the use of Latin in the liturgical life of the Church. (LLA) was founded in 1975 to promote the use of ecclesiastical Latin in the sacred liturgy. Members of the LLA actively support the use of Latin in liturgies at over 280
sites in the United States and about two dozen sites in Canada. The LLA has several local chapters across the United States and has an Episcopal Advisory Board consisting of 38 bishops from throughout the country. The LLA cooperates with counterpart organizations in Europe, particularly the Association for Latin Liturgy in the United Kingdom and the Vereniging voor Latijnse Liturgie in the Netherlands. Membership in the Latin Liturgy Association is open to all who promote the use of Latin in the liturgical life of the Church. The LLA is unique in that it promotes and supports using Latin in both the Ordinary Form and the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, i.e. the post-Vatican II Mass of Blessed Paul VI and the pre-Vatican II Mass of Saint Pius V. The Monterey Chapter of the LLA promotes the use of Latin in the sacred liturgy throughout the Diocese of Monterey in California. The Latin Liturgy Association is following the clear but often forgotten mandate of the Second Vatican Council, which said that “the use of Latin, with due respect to particular law, is to be preserved in the Latin Rites” (Sacrosanctum Concilium, n. 36, §1) and that “care must be taken to ensure that the faithful may also be able to say or sing together in Latin those parts of the Ordinary of the Mass which pertain to them” (Sacrosanctum Concilium, n. 54, §1). The Second Vatican Council also said that “the Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore, other things being equal, it should be given pride of place in liturgical services” (Sacrosanctum Concilium, n. 116).
