How do you refer to the different Masses?

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Please pick the two phrases you use to refer to the different forms of Mass in the Roman Church.
  • Vetus Ordo
  • Novus Ordo
  • Extraordinary Form
  • Ordinary Form
  • TLM (Tridentine Latin Mass)
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I have never, nor can I imagine, ever qualified the name of the Mass version…I have said, “I’m going to Mass”, “I went to Mass”, “It was a beautiful Mass,”, etc…but never felt the need (nor had any one ask “which kind” to insert the adjective “TLM, Latin, Traditional, Ordinary, Extraordinary”, etc.
 
I call the OF the OF. I call the EF the EF on here, but to my friends who aren’t that familiar with Mass lingo, I call it the TLM or the Latin Mass so they’ll know what I mean.
 
But the Ordinary Form is celebrated in Latin in some places, and it is the Mass, so… Isn’t that term not very descriptive?
 
It isn’t but that is what I call it because where I live there is no novus ordo in latin and everyone who I talk to would understand what I am talking about but if you want to be specific then I would call it the Extraordinary Form
 
On the forum, OF and EF.
If I were holding a conversation in person I would say forma extraordinaria and forma ordnaria as my pastor does.
 
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But the Ordinary Form is celebrated in Latin in some places, and it is the Mass, so… Isn’t that term not very descriptive?
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Probably, but I think most people understand perfectly well what is being said, particularly if you are speaking to an average Catholic at an average parish.
 
Outside of Catholic Answers, I just say Mass. I’ve even been known to refer to the Divine Liturgy as Mass.😮 If I am referring to the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, I’ll usually say, “Mass at St. (Traditional Parish).” Sometimes I’ll use the shorthand “The Latin Mass” or “Traditional Mass” In my circles, that is perfectly well understood and it might come across as pretentious to use Ordinary Form and Extraordinary Form in everyday speech. Members of the above-mentioned traditional parish tend to use “Novus Ordo”.
 
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In Catholic places, where people know what I’m talking about, I say Tridentine Mass and Novus Ordo, but whenever talking to people that are unaware of the situation I find easier to say this:
“It’s the Mass said in Latin.”
 
Ordinary Form
Extraordinary Form

If people have no idea what I’m talking about, then I say “Mass in English” or “Old Mass in Latin”
 
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I call the OF the OF. I call the EF the EF on here, but to my friends who aren’t that familiar with Mass lingo, I call it the TLM or the Latin Mass so they’ll know what I mean.
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Respectfully, 99.9% of practicing Catholics have no idea whatsoever what any of that means. They might know what the Latin Mass is but the rest of it is simply nowhere near the radar screen.

People are more worried about how they will car pool to the abortion clinic for vigil (and that’s a good thing!)
 
The Catholics I know are aware of what a Latin Mass is.
Most of them also have a nodding acquaintance with “rad trads”.
 
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goout said:
People are more worried about how they will car pool to the abortion clinic for vigil (and that’s a good thing!)
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It’s not a zero sum game, and I don’t appreciate it being made like one.
 
Max, and now that you have these results? Is there some point or wrap up story behind this poll?

Because it sounds a little like the kind of poll “someone else” would have posted.
 
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