Solesmes Abbot Proposes Changes to Roman Rite that Resemble Novus Ordo
Abbot Geoffroy Kemlin of the Abbey Saint-Pierre, Solesmes, France, has proposed to insert the old Latin Mass into the current Roman Missal, creating one missal containing two forms. The Novus Ordo should remain unchanged.
He has sent his proposal in a letter to Leo XIV on November 12, 2025.
Abbot Kemlin explicitly frames this as a response to the global liturgical dispute (including France, United States, England, Germany) and an effort to restore unity in the Church.
He admits that the two forms reflect different “anthropologies” and ways of prayer and Catholics attached to the old rite are unlikely to adopt the new one.
His proposal speaks of "minimal" revisions of the old Latin Mass. However, his changes would be far-reaching: allowing vernacular language, use of new lectionary, possible concelebration, integration into a single calendar, and additional Eucharistic prayers.
In a March 16 interview to Rcf.fr, he …More
You don’t compromise when under attack. Are there no men in the Church? Have you been so feminized since the Wars of Religion, the 19th Century kitsch, the collapse of philosophy in the early 1900s that you have no fight left in you?
How can you maintain the truth when there is no truth in you?
So ridiculous -- total Modernist - thinks he can change the Catholic Faith to go along with his whims and attitudes - unreal - ignore him! Who does he think he is!
That would be a disaster.
Not only different anthropology, but most of all different ecclesiology. This attempt shows it well.