Hey Tridentine Mass Fans, How Old Are You?

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JRKH said:
I for one don’t want one supplanted for the other.
Why not let both co-exist? Why not look at each for it’s own advantages?

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The OP asked if we saw the NO being abandoned for lack of interest. I was just answering the question.
 
I was 21 when I attended my first Tridentine Mass. What really impressed me was the silence during the Consecration.
 
I attended my first Latin Mass when I was 41, and I’ve hardly gone to an NO since. It’s not that I think the NO masses I attended were invalid, or unworthy or anything like that-it’s simply that I feel closer to God at a TLM.

I attended my first Mass out of curiosity, as did many in my age group. I don’t remember the TLM, because I was too young when the changes began. By the time I started school, the Mass was in English.

The thing that’s hardest about being my age in a TLM community is that I feel so ignorant. I went to school during the “warm, fuzzy, Jesus” era of religious education and I feel like I was cheated. The kids in my parish know their catechism, and the older folks remember it too. It’s those of us who came of age in the 70’s who really have a deficit to overcome in terms of our religion.
 
I started attending our local TLM after I turned 50. I’m a convert who joined the church in the mid-70’s, so I had only experienced the NO. I went to the TLM a couple of times out of curiousity after having read so much about it in older books and on the internet.

When we were thinking of changing parishes, we went back to the TLM one week as they had a special event happening after mass that we were interested in. We just kept going back and became official parishioners about a month later when someone asked us if we’d joined yet. There is the occasional time that we’re not able to make it to our parish when there is a time conflict and then we have to attend one of the local NO masses - I find it hard to go back! I miss the quiet parts where you can actually pray quietly without loud music bouncing around your head!!! 😃

I don’t know if the NO will ever be abandoned, but hopefully more NO masses will be celebrated with more reverence and focus on God.

Jennifer
 
Well so much for it being only old people. If our poll is anyplace near average it is less then 40% older people 40 & over. 19% of us over 50 LOL. 😉 Way to go young Catholics.
 
👍 I second that! Way to go young Catholics!

It encourages me so much to see that, at a time when the world seems spinning out of of control and we Catholics seem to be the last openly persecuted faith (by the media and everyone else), that younger people who never even grew up with Latin mass are coming back to basics, so to speak.

It’s such a reverent way to worship, and so very beautiful, that I can well see why many of our younger brethren are checking out this kind of mass. :clapping:

Like my mom used to say (God rest her soul) if you wait long enough, everything comes back into vogue – why not an upward trend in our original roots of Tridentine rite! How wonderful for us all! Looks like my occasion prayers to Mother Mary to consecrate more hearts to Jesus and our church are FINALLY coming to fruition. :gopray2:
Amen!!
 
Has anyone else noticed that converts of all ages seem to be drawn to the Tridentine Mass? They wouldn’t have any point of reference from the past.
 
Fitswimmer said:
The thing that’s hardest about being my age in a TLM community is that I feel so ignorant. I went to school during the “warm, fuzzy, Jesus” era of religious education and I feel like I was cheated. The kids in my parish know their catechism, and the older folks remember it too. It’s those of us who came of age in the 70’s who really have a deficit to overcome in terms of our religion.
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I know how you feel. I am 29 and I am essentaily re-learning my faith. So much has been left out the past 40 years. It is a shame.
 
To Thedavidwilson,

I feel bad for those of us who came along after V2 (I was one year after) because I believe there was a lot of confusion in the early years following, and that led to a lot of the beautiful old traditions getting left behind in the church’s efforts to reach out and make the mass more “lay-friendly” (is that a word? :confused: )

But anyway you look at it, The Holy Spirit is hard at work moving more people to visit and try on the variations of our mass rites, so that we may be comfortable whenever we come to worship in the presence of his son, our Lord, Jesus.

It’s a great and glorious thing!

Have a blessed day!
 
I’m 65 and only one other is older. The rest are in their 30’s and younger.
Just a side note. Have ya’ll noticed the carry over from the NO Mass as some are answering the Priests’ dialogue with the Altar Boys. Especially at a Low Mass. I understand this at the High Masss because they are responding with the Choir.
 
I’m 57, but I like the regular old NO at my parish just fine too. I even like the guitar Mass, but there’s a teen Mass at a neighboring parish on Sunday evening that I don’t like much at all…it’s just the only Sunday evening Mass in my area on those occassions when I have to be out of town on Sunday morning.
 
Silver_Thread said:
I’m 65 and only one other is older. The rest are in their 30’s and younger.
Just a side note. Have ya’ll noticed the carry over from the NO Mass as some are answering the Priests’ dialogue with the Altar Boys. Especially at a Low Mass. I understand this at the High Masss because they are responding with the Choir.
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I go to a low mass (actually a dialog mass) - we were instructed that we can respond w/the server. I’m a convert and fairly new at the Tridentine mass, so don’t know… .
 
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