How do you feel about being a minority in the church?

[Warrenton]

I feel absolutely terrible.

No, my friend. You should feel good!

Yes, rowing the boat is strenuous, but now we’re rowing with the tide!

Just look at what we have: tridentine masses and other sacraments coming back!

Lots of young men becoming priests so they can celebrate the sacraments!

Traditional monks and nuns on the increase!

Traditional colleges, like Christendom and Ave Maria, challenging the sluggards like Catholic U and G Town.

This internet where we can reach each other!

We can speak out in support of our ancient faith. There is simply no way anyone can say to us “no one thinks like you do. you’re wrong.” Look at all the web sites and blogs supporting our traditional faith. Just try to find a site “Clown Mass for Catholics Home Page.”

Laete triumphantes!

 

[ConstantineTG]

Just look at what we have: tridentine masses and other sacraments coming back!

What other sacraments coming back? Never knew any one of them were gone

 

[Warrenton]

Gin a body kiss a body, comin thro the rye, need a body cry?

I remember many years ago going to mass at the cathedral in Oban, and thinking to myself that is was incredible so many held the faith in the highlands. Inspirational. Traditional Catholics simply cannot let go: our brethern need us. I forget the character’s name in Rob Roy, but he was a true Jacobite, and Catholic, on the run from the usurper’s soldiers. He was worn out, what of it? He could still swing a claymore. Christ was worn out too, unto death.

The Lord has confirmed our faith for a reason. Perhaps to stand witness at some future point in time.

The best advice I can give is to visit this website a lot, find a traditional Catholic friend to talk to in person (convert one if you need to!). Pray the traditional prayers, keep your home as traditional Catholics should, with a crucifix and an image of Our Lady somewhere.

When you have to go to a new mass, bring your tridentine missal and pray along in Latin.

Who cares what other people say about us? A man’s a man, for all that.

 

[Warrenton]

What other sacraments coming back? Never knew any one of them were gone

Give me a break. I meant the tridentine -or old if you prefer- way of celebrating them. And if you hadn’t noticed the changes, pray tell me, where have you been hiding these 40 years gone by?

 

[ConstantineTG]

Give me a break. I meant the tridentine -or old if you prefer- way of celebrating them. And if you hadn’t noticed the changes, pray tell me, where have you been hiding these 40 years gone by?

Geez, so much anger dude, chill.

You said specifically that sacraments are coming back and I asked an honest question.

 

[ProVobis]

Give me a break. I meant the tridentine -or old if you prefer- way of celebrating them. And if you hadn’t noticed the changes, pray tell me, where have you been hiding these 40 years gone by?

I hear confession (Penance) is on its way back.

 

[Warrenton]

Geez, so much anger dude, chill.

I am chill. I’m positively Bob Cratchit.

 

[Iotaunum]

I personally feel sick to see the destruction and modernism raging today. Everywhere I look I see High Altars ripped out (and turned into seats, ambos, curb stones etc), wooden tables put in, Priests wearing protestantized vestments: indistinguishable from the local Anglican, Nuns dressed as lay people, priests dressed in plain clothes and wanting to get married, clergy telling protestants and athietsts that there is no need to convert, confession boxes ripped out, kneelers removed, Churches whitewashed and statues removed, women from the local paint shop reading the eipistle, protestants giving a sermon, guitars and secular music, people dressed far too casually, Bishops acting as if they were “one of the gang”, priests preaching on secular/social matters and not salvation etc and this is before the “abuse” of an already de-catholicised liturgy. Watered down faith.

This is not just my diocese, which is considered conservative, but over the whole world. The loss of faith and destruction of the Chapels and Churches is bad enough, but what is more sickening is the lax attitude the laity have towards the destruction. It has gone way too far and will end badly. And before we have those who say: my praish is not like this; it will be very soon- I said the same thing not too many years ago. All thaat I have said here is documented fact.

Others who love the New mass and the renovation of the Churches are entitled to their opinion - this is mine.

 

[kozlosap]

No, my friend. You should feel good!

Yes, rowing the boat is strenuous, but now we’re rowing with the tide!

Just look at what we have: tridentine masses and other sacraments coming back!

Lots of young men becoming priests so they can celebrate the sacraments!

Traditional monks and nuns on the increase!

Traditional colleges, like Christendom and Ave Maria, challenging the sluggards like Catholic U and G Town.

This internet where we can reach each other!

We can speak out in support of our ancient faith. There is simply no way anyone can say to us “no one thinks like you do. you’re wrong.” Look at all the web sites and blogs supporting our traditional faith. Just try to find a site “Clown Mass for Catholics Home Page.”

Laete triumphantes!

I’ve been lurking around this afternoon and not posting, but when I saw this post, I laughed right out-loud! In all honesty, do you really think you can compare Ava Maria and Christendom to Georgetown, Notre Dame or Fordham? Why don’t you try to get into a top law school or med school after graduating cum laude from Christendom or Ava Maria, then try again if you graduated from Georgetown or Fordham. Do you live on another planet? Thankfully I had the opportunity and my daughter had scholarships to send her to one of those “sluggish” universities where there are top rated faculty and research facilities. I think the smaller so called “traditional” colleges are just fine, but keep it in an educational perspective.

 

[archangel04]

Geez, so much anger dude, chill.

You said specifically that sacraments are coming back and I asked an honest question.

Well your sarcastic attitude will tend to bring out some anger from people, and I don’t blame them.

 

[ConstantineTG]

Well your sarcastic attitude will tend to bring out some anger from people, and I don’t blame them.

Whats sarcastic about a straight forward question? How would you phrase that question if you were me?

 

[Contra_Mundum_1]

Guys,
let’s not argue and be nasty to each other. There’s too much of that out there anyway.

Let’s keep this thread cheerful by sticking to the topic of feeling lonely and misunderstood by the mainstream in the church.

 

[dmorgan]

Contra Mundum, try this

From 2nd Epistle Of Saint Paul To Timothy, Ch. 4:

[1]I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming, and his kingdom: [2] Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine. [3] For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: [4] And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables. [5] But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy ministry. Be sober.

Pax Christi

 

[Warrenton]

I’ve been lurking around this afternoon and not posting, but when I saw this post, I laughed right out-loud! In all honesty, do you really think you can compare Ava Maria and Christendom to Georgetown, Notre Dame or Fordham? Why don’t you try to get into a top law school or med school after graduating cum laude from Christendom or Ava Maria, then try again if you graduated from Georgetown or Fordham. Do you live on another planet? Thankfully I had the opportunity and my daughter had scholarships to send her to one of those “sluggish” universities where there are top rated faculty and research facilities. I think the smaller so called “traditional” colleges are just fine, but keep it in an educational perspective.

Thanks for the lecture, bro. Sadly, I live on this planet, where I have had the pleasure of watching the colleges you name become no better than secular institutions, which is a crime, given that they were built on the money sent by Catholics of extremely modest means. They are sell outs.

If you think the “great” Catholic universities are going to supply a great Catholic thinker in the mold of Gibbons, or even Peter Kreef, think again.

For all that totally inspirational “top rated” faculty, you get the dreck that Germany has just promulagated, namely that we reform the Catholic Church by becoming Unitarians. I’m sure regurgitating that 500 year old concept took the scholars no end of work.

Simply brilliant. I’m glad your girl got a scholarship. Had you wanted her to go to a Catholic school, you’d have wasted about 35K per year.

But look at it this way, to bring it back to the topic of the thread. At least as a Hoya, or whatever she is, she wasn’t made to go to mass, or confession, or otherwise made to feel an “outcast” in her faith, was she?

 

[Warrenton]

Whats sarcastic about a straight forward question? How would you phrase that question if you were me?

Don’t worry. If I am chilled, you are very cool.