Define Traditional Roman Catholic Spirituality

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Traditional Catholic spirituality, at least in my understanding, centers around the extraordinary form of the Mass and Divine Office, as well as around traditional devotional practices such as exposition and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Angelus.
 
I think now-a-days Traditional Catholicism and Traditional Spirituality consists of a steadfast clinging to the Church’s traditional practices and traditional forms of worship. For example, rather than go to a church with woman dancing down the aisles with tambourines while listening to the electric guitar and drums in the backround and while having people blurt out gibberish nonsense (aka speaking in tongues) and falling on the floor in acts of “worship,” Traditional Catholics seek the most solemn and reverent ways to worship God in the way he has proscribed he wants to be worshiped. They keep the focus on God and pleasing him rather than on man and entertainment. And they practice traditional devotions and meditations, such as praying the rosary (in Latin! :)) in a candle lit room while meditating deeply on the mysteries our Lady left us. They also make due use of available indulgences for themselves and their departed loved ones and engage in fastings and other penances. But again, the thing that sets traditional Catholic spirituality most apart from the rest is a steadfast adherence to the traditional teachings of the Church understanding them in the same sense as they have always been taught.
Yes I agree with you worship, adoration, and prayer should be a vertical connection with the Blessed Trinity During Mass and not a time or place to be entertained. The Mass Celebration is our chance to be in Heaven in the presence of GOD and all reverence, love, and humility must be in ours hearts to adore the The KING of Kings. I’m glad I not the only one who understand and practices the Faith this way.👍
 
Traditional Catholic spirituality, at least in my understanding, centers around the extraordinary form of the Mass and Divine Office, as well as around traditional devotional practices such as exposition and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Angelus.
I like that definition. Perhaps add the use of Sacramentals.
 
Just having viewed a full-page advertisement for The Traditionalist, which lists some of the questions discussed by that magazine, we got an impression of some rather harshly expressed irreverence toward the proceedings of Vatican II, and perhaps some impropriety in a reference to Pope John XXIII as “Good Pope John”. Could their concept of Traditional, apparently claiming a kind of esoteric superior insight beyond our precious Apostolic Church, be an effect of the pop cultural revival of gnostic egotism (lately becoming quite pervasive)?
 
I think it would be adhering to the beliefs of the Church totally. It also means rejecting out of hand certain practices that have developed in the Church that have no historical base within the Church and that do not in any way represent the Catholic faith as it has been practiced over the centuries.

Political correctness, tolerance for other beliefs and inclusiveness may be fine for a society but when you come down to it the Catholic faith is concerned with two major things. Giving worship, honor and Glory to God and achieving your salvation.

When any innovation detracts from those things it should be viewed as suspect.
Are you insuating that as a traditional catholic one must be bigoted and intolerant of others who do not believe what they believe, look like them , share the same background,etc. Does this sound like the Pharisees of Jesus’ time? No thanks, I perfer to be traditional in that my obedience is to the Peter’s successor as directed by Jesus. I would rather have Jesus judge me on how I live his commandant to love my neighbor as I love myself, than how I compare my idea of catholicism to others.
 
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