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

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There is and I do as often as I can…thank you Pope Benedict!!!
 
I would be happy to make both forms of the Roman Rite (the Ordinary and the Extraordinary) a regular part of my liturgical life.

(The phrase “Latin Mass” is not accurate enough, by the way, since the Ordinary Form can be celebrated in Latin too!)
 
tweetymom said:
Oh really we aren’t supposed to enjoy Mass?:eek:
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Let’s try another question. Should we “enjoy” worshipping God? Should we not do it if we don’t enjoy it?

Honestly, “enjoy” is just not a word that comes to my mind regarding the Mass. It’s a word that’s not terribly applicable to the substance being discussed.
 
VociMike said:
Let’s try another question. Should we “enjoy” worshipping God? Should we not do it if we don’t enjoy it?

Honestly, “enjoy” is just not a word that comes to my mind regarding the Mass. It’s a word that’s not terribly applicable to the substance being discussed.
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We shouldn’t enjoy worshipping God?
 
tweetymom said:
We shouldn’t enjoy worshipping God?
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Well, if you have to take your child to the emergency room at 3 in the morning and have to stay there for hours, would you say you “enjoyed” that trip?

Do you think martyrs “enjoy” their martyrdom?
 
VociMike said:
Well, if you have to take your child to the emergency room at 3 in the morning and have to stay there for hours, would you say you “enjoyed” that trip?

Do you think martyrs “enjoy” their martyrdom?
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What does going to the emergency room have to do with worshipping God? Why do you worship God?
 
VociMike said:
What does self-giving love have to do with worshipping God? 🤷

Because he is God, with all that entails.
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Self giving love? Boy you sure have a problem! Worshipping God is giving love to Him and Him giving love back. David sang and danced before the Lord. I enjoy giving praise and love to our Savior. He sure is God and I praise His holy name with all that is within me. I enjoy every minute I spend with Him, sorry you don’t God Bless you.
 
tweetymom said:
Self giving love? Boy you sure have a problem!
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Taking a sick child to the emergency room means the parent (the one demonstrating self-giving love, in case you didn’t follow) has a problem?
Worshipping God is giving love to Him and Him giving love back. David sang and danced before the Lord. I enjoy giving praise and love to our Savior. He sure is God and I praise His holy name with all that is within me. I enjoy every minute I spend with Him, sorry you don’t God Bless you.
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And in my mind “enjoy” doesn’t convey the actual feeling well at all. I am entitled to express my experiences of my own feelings, aren’t I? But we are going way off course, so I won’t keep responding along this line.
 
Interesting that you post your question. I have been considering driving an hour to the only church in our diocese that offers the Latin Mass. I remember hearing the Mass when I was young and thought it was so beautiful. I’m interested to see if it has the same appeal now that I’m older. So I will have to make the drive to find out. Thanks for posting
 
PAboy57 said:
Interesting that you post your question. I have been considering driving an hour to the only church in our diocese that offers the Latin Mass. I remember hearing the Mass when I was young and thought it was so beautiful. I’m interested to see if it has the same appeal now that I’m older. So I will have to make the drive to find out. Thanks for posting
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You are welcome but thank H.H. BXVI 😉

And thanks to all who have offered their thoughts so far 🙂

Here is a wonderful site by the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius in Chicago. Tons of info on the Mass celebrated per the 1962 Missal.
sanctamissa.org/en/

Another wonderful site of interest with stunning videos and photos
newliturgicalmovement.org/

For those who prefer the Ordinary Form, the USCCB offers info on the 3rd Edition of the Roman Missal. Click Sample Text for a look at the changes
usccb.org/romanmissal/

Also one of our CA members, japhy, has written a book on the prayers of the Mass. See his signature in post # 20 above 🙂
 
I would go once out of curiosity to see what it was like in the olden days.
 
I’m a brand new Catholic. After hearing people on CAF, and other blogs, rave about the beauty of the TLM, I wanted to go see. So, I went with a very positive outlook and great hope.

I went to a TLM at a semi-rural mission church in my area. I speak Spanish fluently (should help with Latin, no?), took Latin in college, and did some studying beforehand, and had a sheet with all the prayers. Despite all of that, I couldn’t understand a word the priest said, he spoke in a very low voice and very rapidly. I simply couldn’t follow what was happening. I won’t be going back for that particular experience anytime soon. It’s fine and wonderful to say that the “active participation” of the congregation in TLM is in prayer, but when you don’t know what is happening, that’s a bit problematic. Kneeling at the pew and watching the priest move from side to side and hearing a lot of mumbling isn’t a great prayer, IMHO.

The next closest TLM is two hours away. I doubt that I’ll drive four hours and risk the same experience.

I find the OF Mass at our cathedral parish very holy. Our Fransciscans say Mass by the book (no ad-libs), the music is sacred (no guitars, no drums), the priests sing or chant many of the prayers, and many of those in Latin (Agnus Dei, Sanctus). Plus, these guys are terrific homilists. Am I lucky or what?😃 BTW, I left a less orthodox parish, rife with abuses, for this one.
 
GwenL said:
I’m a brand new Catholic. After hearing people on CAF, and other blogs, rave about the beauty of the TLM, I wanted to go see. So, I went with a very positive outlook and great hope.

I went to a TLM at a semi-rural mission church in my area. I speak Spanish fluently (should help with Latin, no?), took Latin in college, and did some studying beforehand, and had a sheet with all the prayers. Despite all of that, I couldn’t understand a word the priest said, he spoke in a very low voice and very rapidly. I simply couldn’t follow what was happening. I won’t be going back for that particular experience anytime soon. It’s fine and wonderful to say that the “active participation” of the congregation in TLM is in prayer, but when you don’t know what is happening, that’s a bit problematic. Kneeling at the pew and watching the priest move from side to side and hearing a lot of mumbling isn’t a great prayer, IMHO.

The next closest TLM is two hours away. I doubt that I’ll drive four hours and risk the same experience.

I find the OF Mass at our cathedral parish very holy. Our Fransciscans say Mass by the book (no ad-libs), the music is sacred (no guitars, no drums), the priests sing or chant many of the prayers, and many of those in Latin (Agnus Dei, Sanctus). Plus, these guys are terrific homilists. Am I lucky or what?😃 BTW, I left a less orthodox parish, rife with abuses, for this one.
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Hi Gwen, and welcome to the Church 🙂 The EF can be tough to follow the first time. One really must go enough times to learn what the priest is doing. By his gestures, bows, etc., it’s not hard to know what is happening on the Altar. And this makes it easy to find your place in the missal is you fall behind or get ahead of the priest. The participation is praying Holy Mass with the priest.

Pope Saint Pius X, the only Pope canonized in the last 450 years or so, tells us so.
“Don’t pray at Holy Mass, but pray the Holy Mass.”
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“The Holy Mass is a prayer itself, even the highest prayer that exists. It is the Sacrifice, dedicated by our Redeemer at the Cross, and repeated every day on the altar. If you wish to hear Mass as it should be heard, you must follow with eye, heart and mouth all that happens at the altar. Further, you must pray with the priest the holy words said by him in the Name of Christ and which Christ says by him. You have to associate your heart with the holy feelings which are contained in these words and in this manner you ought to follow all that happens at the altar. When acting in this way, you have prayed Holy Mass.”
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A good missal with the rubrics and commentary is needed to do this. And after several times attending, it will become second nature. It took me about 30 lol.

Anyway, I can see why you felt so distanced from the Mass you attended. There is nothing quite like the ancient Rites of the Catholic Churches, and for 40 years, the largest of these has not prayed Hers. It seems foreign to so many of Her own 😦

Deo gratias you have found a good, reverent parish 👍
 
GwenL said:
I’m a brand new Catholic. After hearing people on CAF, and other blogs, rave about the beauty of the TLM, I wanted to go see. So, I went with a very positive outlook and great hope.

I went to a TLM at a semi-rural mission church in my area. I speak Spanish fluently (should help with Latin, no?), took Latin in college, and did some studying beforehand, and had a sheet with all the prayers. Despite all of that, I couldn’t understand a word the priest said, he spoke in a very low voice and very rapidly. I simply couldn’t follow what was happening. I won’t be going back for that particular experience anytime soon. It’s fine and wonderful to say that the “active participation” of the congregation in TLM is in prayer, but when you don’t know what is happening, that’s a bit problematic. Kneeling at the pew and watching the priest move from side to side and hearing a lot of mumbling isn’t a great prayer, IMHO.

The next closest TLM is two hours away. I doubt that I’ll drive four hours and risk the same experience.

I find the OF Mass at our cathedral parish very holy. Our Fransciscans say Mass by the book (no ad-libs), the music is sacred (no guitars, no drums), the priests sing or chant many of the prayers, and many of those in Latin (Agnus Dei, Sanctus). Plus, these guys are terrific homilists. Am I lucky or what?😃 BTW, I left a less orthodox parish, rife with abuses, for this one.
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I get turned off by the EF low Mass also.

The solemn OF Masses at my parish are awesome.
 
Suffice it to say, my liturgical history is unusual and my preference is not for the EF.

As long as I have the privilege I will continue attending a chanted Latin OF. To me, that form of the OF is much more conducive to prayer than the EF.

(Unlike prior posters, although acknowledging the distraction of oft-encountered speed-reader priests, I think I would prefer an EF Low Mass to a High Mass or Missa Cantata, because at least at Low Mass you don’t have to decide whether to pray the Ordinary or pray with the priest (as both are saying prayers over the other… If I had to attend an EF, I’d prefer a Dialogue Mass.)
 
I would like to attend once, just so I can see what it’s like, but otherwise I would much prefer to go to an Ordinary Form mass in Latin. I don’t know why that is so rarely presented as an option, when you can do it in Latin, ad orientam, with propers, etc.
 
Prometheum_x said:
… I don’t know why that is so rarely presented as an option, when you can do it in Latin, ad orientam, with propers, etc.
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Short answer.
There are quite a number of bishops out there who hate Latin and do all they can to discourage any use of it.
 
I voted EF. My Diocese has only four Parishes that offer the EF, and only one of those offers every Sunday. If I want to go it is either drive 75 miles one way, or cross the state line and attend an SSPX chapel 30 miles away. Our Bishop does not seem inclined to follow Summorum Pontificum.

it is sad and troublesome what 40+ years of Novus Ordo and poor Catachesis has accomplished.
 
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