How Many Here Would Attend The Traditional Latin Mass If It Were Available ?

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All are welcome to vote in the poll, but the purpose is in hope those who have never attended one will vote yes or no.

For those who may not know, H.H. Benedict XVI freed the use of the 1962 Missal of indult and any priest can now pray it without explicit permission of his Bishop. Assuming he can pray the Mass in a competent manner of course.

Feel free to explain your answer.

Thank you for taking time to vote 🙂
 
I have a EF Mass available in my diocese every Sunday, in a parish that is about 3 miles from my home. Most of the time it is a “low Mass”, but usually once a month there is a “high Mass”.

I have never been, even though I would like to.:(,
so I did not vote in your poll, as you do not have an answer that would suit my needs.

What is keeping me from going?

Attitudes of many (NOT ALL!!!) of the “traditional set” in my community.
Every thing from the “OF is an abomination” to “I lack spirituality and am not “Catholic” enough.”:mad:

We also have a couple of very traditional OF parishes in my area, where I have been told to *“Get out of my pew”, * *“You don’t belong to this parish, why are you here?” *and a few things that I will not comment on.

I am not saying that this happens everywhere or even all the time, but it has made me shy away from more “traditionally minded people”, as I find many of them to be hypocritical and very un-Christian. 😦

The Pope has said, time and time again that the OF is the “norm” and that the EF, can and should be celebrated but not instead of the OF.
Now, all I know is the OF (we both celebrated our 40th this year), and in many cases have been told that "I don’t know what being Catholic is all about", because of it.:confused:

Sorry, with that kind of attitude, I will stay with my OF parish, abuses and all, and hope that my prayerful and respectful presence there can help to be an example to others.:gopray2:
 
I voted “no” but that’s not to say I would boycott a Latin Mass. I wouldn’t attend one for the same reason I wouldn’t attend a Mass in French or Spanish or Greek – I wouldn’t understand it.
 
I’d like to go one Latin Mass just out of curiosity. There is only one parish near me that offers it. I’d probably end up going on Sunday, when I’d already been to my OF parish.
 
I think that the Latin mass in our day and age is a mistake. I wouldn’t go. I favor liturgy in a language that I can understand. For those who speak English, it is not simply a matter of studying Latin sufficiently to understand what the words mean. Rather, for me, English is the language in which I pray, in which I express what’s in my heart.
 
I wish there was a Tridentine mass offered somewhere near me. :imsorry: Anyone know of one being offeded near Trenton New Jersey?
 
I’d definitely go, but probably not every week. Since there is no likelihood that I will ever see the EF celebrated in my parish (unless they suddenly take the OMIs out and replace them with another religious congregation/order) I’m not holding my breathe.

I was 12 when we started the OF so I can remember what Mass was like before Vat. II, even the sung daily Mass which is more vivid in my mind than the Sunday Masses of the time.

I’d go to an EF High Mass rather than go to an OF Mass but I think I’d rather go to an OF Mass than to an EF Low Mass.
 
I’ve already attended both low and high Latin Masses and didn’t like either one. I’m 50 years old and I have no recollection of the Latin Mass as a child. The Mass in the vernacular is all I have ever known. It was distracting because the prayers such as the Holy Holy, the Lamb of God, the Our Father, etc, were all written in Latin in a sheet distributed in the pews, which was charitably provided, but I didn’t know how to pronounce any of it and I found that all of my attention was off of God and the Mass and instead devoted to attempting to pronounce the words correctly and also trying to correlate the meaning of the Latin words as they correspond to the English words. Sanctus means holy. Agnus means Lamb. Got that so far. But my brain is working overtime and my heart is not praying. When the Mass is prayed in a language I understand(English), I pray. When the Mass is prayed in Latin, it’s puzzling, confusing, and distracting.

I don’t go to any more Latin Masses, high or low. I think that most of the people who want the Latin Mass to become the established norm are operating more out of nostalgia than out of charity. There are whole generations who have grown up without this. I don’t see it as necessary. If the translations of the Mass in the vernacular are accurate, that is all we need. I trust in the Pope and the Bishops to lead us in this. It also appears that perhaps some of the more nostalgic people are interpreting things a bit more radically. I think that the Latin Mass is being made available for people who prefer it, and that is as it should be. But I don’t believe the Latin Mass is ever going to become the “ordinary” form of the Mass. It would be far too divisive at this point in our history. I think that having the Mass in the vernacular was actually a step in the right direction. If the translations are bad, correct them. But is it really wisdom to make the Mass completely incoherent to entire generations of people who have never experienced it as such?
 
TLM is available in our city about two miles from my house, and has been available since the mid 1980s.

Like others on this thread, I’m not interested in hearing Mass in a foreign language when I can participate in excellent Masses in my own heart language.

I am glad it’s there for there for the small number of people in the city who enjoy it…oops, sorry! I know we’re not supposed to attend Mass because we “enjoy it” or because it’s our “personal preference.” So I suppose I should say, the TLM is there for those who feel led to attend the EF of the Mass. I’m glad for them. It’s nice that they don’t have to drive a long distance, especially with gas at $3.00 a gal and going up.
 
Due to lack of availability I rarely have an opportunity to attend any Latin Mass. For that matter just about every Mass I attend is illicit to some extent or another but, thankfully, all but a few are free from grave liturgical abuse or invalidity.
I attended daily Mass from age 12 until the 1960s.
After Latin was outlawed (so we were told), and Vatican II ordered the removal of Communion rails etc. (again so we were told), abandonment of Catholic music etc. etc., I attend Mass only on Sundays and Holy Days. I no longer sing in the choir. I say the rosary or pray the Traditional Mass in my 1962 Latin Missal while the Protestant and pop-slop OCP music is being sung.
I noticed early on the numerous defects in the translations, especially after 1969 and have been quietly making the responses in Latin for the past forty plus years. I have never been comfortable in a modern vernacular Mass, although I have been fortunate enough to have been able to travel and attend several Latin OF Masses and a few EF Masses from time to time.
If a Latin Mass (OF or EF) were available at a reasonable time Sunday morning within an hours drive, I would be there every week.
 
I voted “yes” but I have at least one caveat. First and foremost, I would choose an Ordinary Form (Novus Ordo) Mass (English or Latin) that was reverent and solemn and had suitable sacred music as called for in the Church documents over a Low 1962 Mass. Vatican II tells us that sacred music forms “a necessary or integral part of the solemn liturgy,” not that it is just a nice addition.
 
VociMike said:
I voted “yes” but I have at least one caveat. First and foremost, I would choose an Ordinary Form (Novus Ordo) Mass (English or Latin) that was reverent and solemn and had suitable sacred music as called for in the Church documents over a Low 1962 Mass. Vatican II tells us that sacred music forms “a necessary or integral part of the solemn liturgy,” not that it is just a nice addition.
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I would add one more item to the “Ordinary Form (Novus Ordo) Mass (English or Latin) that was reverent and solemn and had suitable sacred music as called for in the Church documents” over what you said – do it in a candlelit crypt church! 👍
 
seagal said:
I voted “no” but that’s not to say I would boycott a Latin Mass. I wouldn’t attend one for the same reason I wouldn’t attend a Mass in French or Spanish or Greek – I wouldn’t understand it.
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Same here altho in the 40’s and 50’s that is all that was available. When I go to Mass English please.
 
Cat said:
TLM is available in our city about two miles from my house, and has been available since the mid 1980s.

Like others on this thread, I’m not interested in hearing Mass in a foreign language when I can participate in excellent Masses in my own heart language.

I am glad it’s there for there for the small number of people in the city who enjoy it…oops, sorry! I know we’re not supposed to attend Mass because we “enjoy it” or because it’s our “personal preference.” So I suppose I should say, the TLM is there for those who feel led to attend the EF of the Mass. I’m glad for them. It’s nice that they don’t have to drive a long distance, especially with gas at $3.00 a gal and going up.
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Oh really we aren’t supposed to enjoy Mass?:eek:
 
JMJ_coder said:
Depends on the definition of enjoy. Mass is not primarily (or even secondarily or tertiarily) an event for entertainment value.
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Well I enjoy going to Church to worship and praise our Savior . I enjoy doing that wereever I am at.
 
I voted that I would attend, but that shouldn’t be interpreted by another as my belief that the EF should be elevated above the OF.

Also, it is very likely that I wouldn’t attend the EF as my family’s Sunday mass. My children are 8, 5, and 2 - the two oldest attend mass with me and my wife. As parents we work very hard to inculcate in our children the practices and doctrines of our faith. My oldest son loves the mass and the sacraments. I have no interest in taking that away from him and forcing him to endure a mass that is totally foreign to him, and in a foreign language to boot. Plus, my five-year-old son doesn’t read - so even if the missal at the TLM has an accurate English translation, he’d be totally lost.

I have an interest in attending a TLM, but not because I think that form of the mass is superior. Rather, I would like to broaden my experience; perhaps I would like it, and perhaps not.

But I highly doubt that the EF will ever supplant the OF as my family’s principle and preferred form of worship and sacramental life. And I’m practically positive that the EF will forever remain the minority form of the mass.

People have very strong feelings about the EF and “traditionalists.” But I agree with an earlier poster that I’m happy for those people who prefer the EF that they no longer must attend an indult mass, and I hope that they can find the TLM locally, if that is their preference.

By the same token, I’m very doubtful of those who tie most (if not every) abuse or scandal back to the OF and Vatican II. I suspect those people have nostalgia for a time that never really existed.

Pax,
OA
 
tweetymom said:
Well I enjoy going to Church to worship and praise our Savior . I enjoy doing that wereever I am at.
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Well, liturgical action should be edifying (much better word to describe it than enjoy). But, sadly, some insist on being entertained (entertained in the same sense of going to the movies or a concert), a whole different ball of wax, and the one I believe was being addressed.
 
I grew up with the Tridentine Mass, and when I attended Catholic school, we had to go daily. I like it just fine, but I don’t miss it at all, and prefer Mass in English, with the cycle of Readings we have now, and with audible prayers and audible active participation. What I don’t like is the infighting between those who prefer the EF and those who prefer the OF. Both sides, in my view, are equally guilty in their rhetoric, and both have missed the point that we belong to One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church and we shouldn’t have this squabbling. I, for one, am very tired of it, and I think Jesus probably is too.
 
bmccpy78 said:
I wish there was a Tridentine mass offered somewhere near me. :imsorry: Anyone know of one being offeded near Trenton New Jersey?
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I would recommend Mater Ecclesiae parish in Berlin, NJ – it’s about an hour away (I live right next to Trenton), but it is definitely worth the trip.
 
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