Portions of these circumstances for celebration of the 1962 Tridentine Mass were replaced and abrogated by Pope Francis's motu proprio Traditionis Custodes in 2021, imposing additional restrictions.

Permission for competent priests to use the Tridentine Mass as parish liturgies was given by the pastor or rector. These Masses 'may - observing all the norms of law - also be attended by faithful who, of their own free will, ask to be admitted'. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, accompanied by a letter to the world's bishops, authorizing use of the 1962 Tridentine Mass by all Latin Church Catholic priests in Masses celebrated without the people. Although the Tridentine Mass is often described as the Latin Mass, the post-Vatican II Mass published by Pope Paul VI and republished by Pope John Paul II, which replaced it as the ordinary form of the Roman Rite, has its official text in Latin and is sometimes celebrated in that language. In response to a decision of that council, Pope Pius V promulgated the 1570 Roman Missal, making it mandatory throughout the Latin Church, except in places and religious orders with missals from before 1370. 'Tridentine' is derived from the Latin Tridentinus, 'related to the city of Tridentum' (modern-day Trent, Italy), where the Council of Trent was held at the height of the Counter-Reformation. The edition promulgated by Pope John XXIII in 1962 (the last to bear the indication ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum) and Mass celebrated in accordance with it are described in the 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum as an authorized form of the Church's liturgy, and sometimes spoken of as the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, or in Latin Usus antiquior ('more ancient usage'). Celebrated exclusively in Ecclesiastical Latin, it was the most widely used Eucharistic liturgy in the world from its issuance in 1570 until the introduction of the Mass of Paul VI (promulgated in 1969, with the revised Roman Missal appearing in 1970). The Tridentine Mass, also known as the Traditional Latin Mass or Traditional Rite, is the Roman Rite Mass of the Catholic Church which appears in typical editions of the Roman Missal published from 1570 to 1962. Elevation of the chalice after the consecration during a Solemn Mass

Latin mass missals pre 1962