Catholic Youths drawn into the Latin Mass

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I read an article that a growing number of young Catholics have grown a deep interest in the Latin Mass. I’m 32, and I have interest in it as well. I would like to go to one.
 
It is natural that as the Latin mass becomes more widely available, there will be an increasing number of people, youths and otherwise, who will be drawn to it.
 
I think so as well. I think it’s all coming back. It will take time but we will bet there eventually 🙂
 
I’m 21 and have been going to an indult parish now for about 11 months. I love the TLM and finding it very spiritually enriching, more so then the Novus Ordo Mass.
 
I adore the Latin Mass. In fact, I took four years of high school Latin for that very reason… I wanted to understand the Mass more fully.

I think that the Latin Mass is very much more beautiful, and helps one remember that Christ called us to be radically different from the rest of the world (fighting for justice and human rights, devoting ourselves to Him, et cetera). It also makes me think of all the people who celebrated in Latin in the past, for the communion of the saints is a very large communion indeed.
 
As a curious non-Catholic teenager many decades ago, my first experience of the traditional latin mass was what set me irrevocably on the path to becoming a Catholic - albeit that it took many years. Although confused, the beauty and spirituality of the latin mass so far surpassed anything I had experienced as a protestant, that I knew in my heart of hearts that this was the one true Church. I’m sure more and more young people - even those with just the tiniest interest in the faith - are bound to be attracted to the TLM and I am so moved to see many participating at the TLMs that I also attend.
 
I’m 22 and have been going to the Traditional Latin Mass for about 2 years now. I love the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite because of its reverence, solemnes, and mysticism. The chant and choir, altar vessels, vestments, gestures, and the atmosphere are way different and more Catholic to me. I admit that I did not understand the Mass the first time I attended it, but I fell in love with it especially when I heard the chants for the first time. I love the Traditional Latin Mass, and I support Pope Benedict XVI.

Laudater Jesus Christus
Instaurare Omnia in Christo
Pax
 
Oh, as for me I’m 21 and I love the TLM as well. I do not attend it under normal circumstances. It’s not very close and I sticks to my parish (I actually live there as a student) but sometimes I go to the Birmingham Oratory, where they offer the Low Mass each Sunday. The Oratory is great because all masses they offer are very reverent (as well as ad orientem with altar rails) and for exaple their NO High Solemn masses are as close to the TLM as they could be. (Man, they even chanted Dies Irae for All Souls! 👍 )

I wish TLM became more popular and far more accessable. Maybe then they would also start offering Missa Cantata which IMO is the supreme form of mass (well, if you don’t count missa cantata) 🙂
 
Digitonomy said:
It is natural that as the Latin mass becomes more widely available, there will be an increasing number of people, youths and otherwise, who will be drawn to it.
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Mainly they will be youths. The generation that were educated in the fifties and sixties were mostly poisoned by extremely poor catechis and educational techniques, and have fallen away or, in less serious cases, adopted a largely nominal form of Catholicism.

However young people either aren’t interested at all, or want something more.
 
Malcolm_McLean said:
Mainly they will be youths. The generation that were educated in the fifties and sixties were mostly poisoned by extremely poor catechis and educational techniques, and have fallen away or, in less serious cases, adopted a largely nominal form of Catholicism.

However young people either aren’t interested at all, or want something more.
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I was one of those 60’s era Catholics and thankfully I was drawn toward a traditional parish and have been working to fill in the gaps from that woefully inadequate religious education. I wanted a firm foundation, I wanted to experience Jesus fully and the Latin Mass gave me those things.

We have a good number of young people at our Masses and it is a wonderful thing to see them finding it now and not losing 20 years to banality like I did.
 
I’m 14 and I’ve been studied Latin this year. I would like to go to a TLM. However I’d like to study it more before I go.
 
AHHH! From my research, there is only one parish in the entire state that celebrates the TLM; a few hundred miles away in Santa Fe! NOOO!:crying:
 
I am 21 and have been going to the TLM for 4 years now (granted I was overseas with the army for a bout 3 years in total), but I am proof of this. I am also a 21 year old altar boy. I was not draw to be an altar server when I was growing up, but now that I discovered the TLM, I really wanted to be on the Altar. Watching the Priest at the altar really is the ultimate “participation” in Holy Mass.
 
I’m 22 and love the Latin Mass. I heard about it from SSPX, but the separation from the church freaked me out. Luckily we had indult Masses close by in Los Angeles… I fell in love with the reverence that is paid to our Lord in the Holy Sacrifice in the extraordinary form, but I also have a deep love for the ordinary form when it is done with reverence and solemnity as well.

Now that I’m out of college, Chicago gives me St. John Cantius, and San Diego gives me the TLM society. I’m very blessed!
 
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