How far do you drive to attend the TLM?

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I feel so cheated here in the Greensburg D. I pray that we will get to celebrate the TLM in the open and not have to hide our Mass. It is sad that we that Love the old Mass have to go underground in order to do so or travel such long distances. If it was just me I would go every week. But, the trip is tooo long for the baby and then if I have to work after the day gets to long also.
 
The lone indult in Galveston-Houston is a bit more than an hour from here, is held at 8AM, and thus (I suspect by design) essentially impossible to attend on a frequent basis by families with young children who live outside of downtown Houston. For a while we went to an indult at a church about and hour and fifteen minutes north of here (in a differnt diocese) that was held Sunday afternoon, but the priest apparently had some health issues and moved the Indult to the early AM there as well when he redid his mass schedule. On weekends when my ex-wife has the kids I will occasionally go sit in on an SSPX mass as a second mass for the day.
 
25 minutes to the TLM which I assist at.

I have two NO parishes about 3-4 minute drive from me.
 
Ray_Scheel said:
The lone indult in Galveston-Houston is a bit more than an hour from here, is held at 8AM, and thus (I suspect by design) essentially impossible to attend on a frequent basis by families with young children who live outside of downtown Houston. For a while we went to an indult at a church about and hour and fifteen minutes north of here (in a differnt diocese) that was held Sunday afternoon, but the priest apparently had some health issues and moved the Indult to the early AM there as well when he redid his mass schedule. On weekends when my ex-wife has the kids I will occasionally go sit in on an SSPX mass as a second mass for the day.
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I live about the same distance from G-H’s only indult (but in a different direction). We have small children and can’t make the 8am Mass there. I have only been able to attend TLM (as an adult) when I am traveling in another state. Fortunately, there is a very reverent NO Mass in a closer town that we attend when able.
 
I only drive 15 minutes for the Mass (SSPX) on Saturdays and Sundays, though I know of 2 regular families at my parish drive 3 hrs one way, and other occasional families who drive even further for the Mass.
 
My boyfriend and I go to an indult TLM that is 35 miles from my house, he drives an extra 10 miles each way to pick me up and take me home. This takes anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a half from my house. The NO at this same parish is the very best NO I have ever experienced, so we drive there on Holy Days of Obligation and for special devotions even if there is no Latin Mass offered that day. My boyfriend also drives there every Saturday for adult confirmation classes even though there is an RC Church a couple blocks from his apartment. Oddly, there are 2 schismatic churches that offer the TLM within walking distance of my house, but we have never considered going to either of them.
 
brotherhrolf said:
My best friend is a priest who left the priesthood to marry. This is a discipline of the Church which did not evolve until the Middle Ages. Our Eastern brethren don’t have this dicipline and it doesn’t bother me one bit. My friend married my wife and I as a priest and he is active in his parish’s ministry. HMC is accepting married priests from our Lutheran and Anglican brethren…I know far too many good priests who left the priesthood simply because they wanted to marry. I am a traditional Catholic, but I don’t have any problem with this.
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Actually, our eastern brethren only ordain married men to the priesthood. They will not allow a priest who has already been ordained to marry.
 
It is not that far away. It takes 10 minutes if I’m lucking and make all the lights but 15 is more like it. It can be 20-30 minutes in traffic at rush hour, which is only a problem on Holy days.
Kathleen
 
About 50 miles through Southern California traffic. I expect to do it again. Having friends within a few miles who invite to dinner afterward is a plus:thumbsup:
 
Windmill said:
make sure they get involved at st marys catholic center. that’s where i found my faith and my wife. both are helping me to heaven.

BTW, TNT, which parish do you drive to for a TLM? Annunciation church downtown?
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I’m in Grand Prairie, so The choice would be:
**Carmelite Sister Chapel
**Sunday evening in Ft Worth is at St Mary’s Downtown.
These are both Indults.
When I need to support Ecumenism, I will go with wife to SSPX in the am & St. Mary’s in the pm.
 
TNT said:
I’m in Grand Prairie, so The choice would be:
Carmelite Sister Chapel
Sunday evening in Ft Worth is at St Mary’s Downtown.
These are both Indults.
When I need to support Ecumenism, I will go with wife to SSPX in the am & St. Mary’s in the pm.
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That’s a good rationale for supporting ecumenism, T! I’ve never thought of it quite like that before. 😃
 
🙂 Yo, TNT!

Say, inasmuch as I went to Mass there at that “Carmelite Convent” to the Society of Saint Peter’s Indult Mass myself for a period of time over six weeks or so, in zero one, I’m afraid their website’s a little misleading as it might imply, unintentionally, that “Carmelites don’t agree with us on the Tridentine Latin Mass.”

Having visited the Carmelite Convent 300 miles or so south of Dallas in Morelos, Coahuila, I know there’s a lot more to it than that.

In Morelos, the Mother Superior assured us that the Bishop of Saltillo, over 200 miles south, was due to drive up to offer the Tridentine Latin Mass of the Angels at around 4:00 in the morning, to celebrate the safe arrival of the relics of the Little Flower to her flourishing convent-under-construction, set in the middle of nowhere.

I’m afraid that in Dallas it’s a flat-out racial-cross ethnic issue.

At least from late August through early October 2001, the style of those particular Carmelite nuns was to chant their Divine Office in a sort of nasal wail, in minor sinic keys.

Didn’t matter if a Tridentine Mass was due to start on the other side of the wall or not.

Plus, unlike their Mexican counterparts who are exuberantly pro-active in community and village affairs, these nuns seem to be really cloistered!

Thanks!

Aurelio:thumbsup:
 
Although I used to go to Latin Masses all of the time when I was growing up, I will have to answer zero miles. I don’t have a clue where I would go if I wanted to find one. I like going to Mass at my parish, which is very close to my house.

The number of miles people travel brings up an interesting point. Did you know that in the old days, we were required to belong to the parish we were in geographically? There was no such thing as parish hopping to find a parish that was more pleasing. If you didn’t like how your priest said Mass, too bad. You could just offer it up. Of course, you could be a visitor at another parish, you just couldn’t belong to that parish.

What happened after that is they changed that Canon Law. Now it is legal, according to Church rules, to belong to any parish you want to belong to.

I think it is interesting how people pick and choose. If they really wanted to go back to the way things were done in the 1950’s, they would be attending Mass at the parish closest to their home.
 
Listener said:
Although I used to go to Latin Masses all of the time when I was growing up, I will have to answer zero miles. I don’t have a clue where I would go if I wanted to find one. I like going to Mass at my parish, which is very close to my house.

The number of miles people travel brings up an interesting point. Did you know that in the old days, we were required to belong to the parish we were in geographically? There was no such thing as parish hopping to find a parish that was more pleasing. If you didn’t like how your priest said Mass, too bad. You could just offer it up. Of course, you could be a visitor at another parish, you just couldn’t belong to that parish.

What happened after that is they changed that Canon Law. Now it is legal, according to Church rules, to belong to any parish you want to belong to.

I think it is interesting how people pick and choose. If they really wanted to go back to the way things were done in the 1950’s, they would be attending Mass at the parish closest to their home.
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I think you miss the point on why people love the Latin Mass. It isn’t because that is how “things were done in the 1950’s”. I was born in 1972 - and a convert. So at least I do not prefer the Latinmass due to nostalgia.
 
Listener said:
I think it is interesting how people pick and choose. If they really wanted to go back to the way things were done in the 1950’s, they would be attending Mass at the parish closest to their home.
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And maybe if the NO was said the same regardless of the parish, like the TLM is and was, people would not have to shop for a parish. I daresay, there is a lot more parish shopping by people going from NO parish to NO parish looking for something satisfying, than there is from NO to the TLM.
 
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And maybe if the NO was said the same regardless of the parish, like the TLM is and was, people would not have to shop for a parish. I daresay, there is a lot more parish shopping by people going from NO parish to NO parish looking for something satisfying, than there is from NO to the TLM.
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Excellent point.
 
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