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[RichardIIfan]

@rpgabc123 Quite. It's been a massive pastoral failure. The young want to rediscover their lost Catholic heritage. Liberalism is boring. I am sick of drivel bogstandard liturgy and pure emotionalism without any depth.

[gi2bull]

I've attended a Latin Mass for the first time during a friend's wedding. Everything in that Mass told me that the altar is sacred and that there is real presence of our Lord in the form of the Blessed Sacrament. The head cover of the women, the genuflections, and the whole Latin Mass CLEARLY told me that I was attending a holy activity with the Lord's real physical presence. I don't think that it was mere FEELINGS. I believe we should bring back the real essense of the Mass to the faithful.

[onosurf]

Latin Mass Converted pagans to Catholicism. The Novus Ordo is converting Catholics to pagans. Look at the numbers, they don't lie! Also, priest ranks are nearly empty. "By their fruits, you will know them."

[1tontomato]

Simply put, the Mass whether Latin or New Form is perfect, even if the priest is terrible. Latin is not better then New Form, it's all just as important and true. If you don't feel like you're getting an authentic worship on Sundays, don't blame the Mass, blame yourself. Look deep within your heart and find your faults, correct them and enjoy the Mass.

Always follow Church authority and not popular opinion and you will not go wrong.

[deedebdoo]

There are so many church buildings where the Tridentine Mass won't work. As Catholics, we recognize that our physical world is connected to the spiritual world. Beauty recognized through our senses helps us access the spiritual. Beautiful altars, beautiful music, scents, candles, and the ritual movements and language of the Mass. It is so sad that we are losing Catholics who spend their time doing yoga postures using New Age objects. All they need is in our own Faith but no one told them.

[scgiants]

I would LOVE to have one Mass on Sat eve,/Sunday, out of the 6 offered, be offered to us that was the Old Latin Mass as it was for centuries, and although my parish in Myrtle Beach, SC has come leaps and bounds in the last few mos. I still don't think we're quite there yet to get this request. I may have to move back to Ct. where Catholics are more than 3% of the population to get that dream fulfilled lol.

[RichardIIfan]

@rpgabc123 That is the trad and conservative divide. I am the formerand see the TLM as the better way. The conservative sees the novus ordo and says if only the abuses were dealt wtih everything would be all right. They will never be corrected because the liberal-modernists will try not to let them. Fortunately they no longer have teh upper hand in the Church since 2005.

[rpgabc123]

@RichardIIfan I would consider myself in the same camp as you. Although I have no problem attending a reverent Novus Ordo Mass, it is still not the same as attending a TLM. Even if the abuses were corrected and the Novus Ordo was celebrated in the same manner as the TLM, it's still not the same. We've had 40+ years of experimentation and, quite frankly, enough is enough.

[RichardIIfan]

@rpgabc123 That is the trad and conservative divide. I am the formerand see the TLM as the better way. The conservative sees the novus ordo and says if only the abuses were dealt wtih everything would be all right. They will never be corrected because the liberal-modernists will try theri hardest

[rpgabc123]

@RichardIIfan Very true. Although what I've noticed about the Novus Ordo is that people will speak about correcting liturgical abuses (i.e. through documents, through exhortations, etc), however, direct action is not taken. Surely the CDW has this authority, I wonder why it's not used.

[RichardIIfan]

@rpgabc123 yes you are right again. I went to a Church in London that did both forms but I went to the TLM and there was a bit of that attitude. However it works the other way round, or at least it did, with noses in the air look how loyal we are. Humility is a virtue. I cannot get to it now and have to put up with lousy liturgy.