Advice Request: A Protestent's First Mass : Extraordinary or Ordinary?

[ChristopherM]

Hello everyone -

I have come here seeking some advise, This may be in the wrong forum, but please move if nessacary.

to make a long story short my Wife’s Non Catholic Cousin will attend mass with us this sunday as long as my wife’s Grandmother (who was raised Catholic but has stopped practicing) goes with us.

My Cousin (Today is her Birthday BTW) Is an protestant who mainly got involved in any faith based activity because of her Friends from School, they would invite her and she would go and I think her attraction is the social / Fun aspect of her faith community (Mission Trips, “Bible study”, etc).

They have fed her the usual line of anti-catholic talk ( Why do you pray to mary? Where is THAT in the bible?.. etc…)

Through our talks she was not aware of some of the basic differences such as how the Deuterocanonical Books were removed, and she was not aware Jesus gave the Key’s to Peter.

All in all she seems deeply intrigued but does not want to let it on to her friends that she is even somewhat interested in the Catholic Faith

For her birthday we bought her a NAB version of the bible and a copy of Patrick Madrids “Where is THAT in the bible?”

Our Family reguarlly attends Mass in the Extraordinary form every Sunday at one of the Two Vatican Approved Apostolates here in Kansas City

Now… The delima…

Would it be better for my Protestant Cousin to attend Mass in the Ordinary form where she could follow along in the Vernacular, There are no Solemn or very reverent Ordinary Form Mass’ Near by…

or

is it better for her to experience the Beauty of a Solemn Missa Cantata with Insense, the Aspereges Me , Gregorian Chant etc…

If there are any former protestants out there please I highly value your Opinion.

Thanks

Christopher

 

[lak611]

There is an older woman in my parish (in her 70’s) who converted from Lutheran to Catholic when she was 18 years old. She converted because she believed that the Catholic Church had the Truth, in spite of the Mass being in Latin. She was very happy when the Mass was no longer said in Latin. Based on her testimony, I would recommend taking your cousin to an OF Mass rather than an EF Mass.

 

[Valke2]

HI. I’m Jewish, no expert in Christanity, and my understanding of the mystery of the CHurch will always be superficial.

Having said that, my opinion for what its worth, is to take your cousin to the mass which you yourself find moving and which speaks to you. I assume you want toshow her why your religion means so much to you. So show her what you love.