Do not have Latin Mass available. How do I navigate the increasingly Protestant Novus Ordo mass?

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ProVobis said:
They have good music and organists too. I’ve been to many recitals at some of those churches.
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In the Episcopal Church I grew up in, more than half of the choir was vocal faculty from a major university, and the organist was that university’s organ professor. He wrote new settings for most of the service music. It was incredible.
 
This a million times. Humans do human things, and your likes and dislikes do not and should not act as arbiters of truth and fact about what is and is not acceptable. If you want incense and Latin, go ahead. But don’t call something irreverent because it’s in the vernacular and has hymns written during the last millennium.
 
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The irreverence, music, people talking before, during and after mass, hard to pray with all of the noise, a priest who feels he has to entertain and is “jokey”. The list goes on. I’ve been to Latin Mass where my daughter lives out of state and the difference is “deafening.” I have spoken to my priest and have written the bishop over a year ago. Silence. Don’t get me wrong I love the Catholic faith. Just want God revered. Simple.
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None of this happens at the OF Mass I attend at the Benedictine abbey of which I’m an oblate.

Silence
Pipe Organ except during Advent and Lent (excepting Gaudete and Laetare Sundays)
Latin propers in Gregorian chant
Latin/Greek ordinary in Gregorian chant
French plainchant everything else, chanted readings too
Incense when appropriate (Sundays, major feasts and solemnities)
Theologically deep homilies that are related to the readings of the day

None of this is, of course, Protestant. It is Catholic thru and thru.

Try and find a Mass at a local religious community. It might not be in Gregorian chant but solid communities will have a solid Mass, where the celebrant is an instrument of the liturgy, humble and effaced.

Our schola also brings Gregorian chant monthly to a Parish Near You (if you happen to live in Sherbrooke, Quebec).
 
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