If the Protestant is from a mainline denomination, you might be OK taking them to the TLM. It will be familiar to them, just kind of “quaint” because it is in Latin instead of English.
Actually it may shock them more, in a way. Evangelicals who don’t know much about contemporary Catholicism expect Latin, incense, chanting, etc. Mainliners typically use liturgies that are very similar to the Novus Ordo. Many of the more high-church mainliners see themselves as not that different from Catholics, and the TLM really sets them back on their heels. Even some of the more conservative liturgical pronouncements from the Vatican can do that.
Definitely true. That’s my big beef with the TLM as I’ve experienced it. I don’t have a problem with the Latin, largely because I understand Latin quite well. My problem is with the lack of Latin, or any other language.
3… Evangelicals often reject “experiences” and “feelings” and are very suspicious of “experiences” that create “feelings.” They will check it out in detail to make sure that it is “genuine.” One of the posters mentioned a friend who had tears streaming down her face during TLM–notice she she was from a Pentecostal
Protestant background, a group that is very much into feelings. But an
evangelical Protestant would reject these feelings and concentrate on hearing and understanding the pure Word of God in the Mass. He/she will strive to avoid getting caught up in the “majesty” of the Mass, and claim that it is the same as being impressed at Disneyworld. According to evangelical Protestant teaching, It’s not the feelings, it’s the FACTS and FAITH that make a Christian.
Here you are overgeneralizing based on your own experience, or perhaps you are simply defining “evangelical” very narrowly. By most definitions, Pentecostals are evangelicals. A certain kind of quasi-Reformed evangelical does have the attitude you describe. But I think most evangelicals today go a lot by experience.
Other than that, I agree with everything you have said!
Edwin
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