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

[Ockham]

Way too long to read. Isn’t there a forum rule about that?

Bottom line, even a reverent OF still has a different theme or focus than the EF.

 

[CWBetts]

Way too long to read. Isn’t there a forum rule about that?

Bottom line, even a reverent OF still has a different theme or focus than the EF.

You are wrong. Both have the same focus, that is, the Holy Eucharist.

 

[ProVobis]

And I hope that my anger over these slanderous and untrue criticisms of their Masses is counted as “righteous anger” by the Lord and not held against me. I love my bishop and priests and hate seeing them and their Masses reviled by those who have never even attended one of their Masses.

And thanks to your anger against those who were opposed to the TLM, the Pope moved to establish two equal forms of the same rite.

 

[JMJ_coder]

Way too long to read. Isn’t there a forum rule about that?

Bottom line, even a reverent OF still has a different theme or focus than the EF.

Both forms of the Roman Rite, indeed every form of every rite has the exact same basic theme – the Holy Sacrifice of the Eucharist.

 

[Prometheum_x]

Mass is vertical, not horizontal. If you want chit-chat, go to an ice cream social. Mass is the highest form of prayer, and is not a form of Sunday morning entertainment. Recognize what Mass is: A HOLY SACRIFICE! Until you realize this, it doesn’t matter what anyone says. You want entertainment, and couldn’t care less about worship.

Mass is both vertical and horizontal. There are problems when either gets emphasized to the exclusion of the other. If it were entirely vertical, there would be no liturgical dialog (“The Lord be with you”)

It is a Holy Sacrifice. However, Christ is no longer dead.

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, "Are you discussing with one another what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’? Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy. When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world. So you also are now in anguish. But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. (John 16:19-22 NAB)

We observe Good Friday as the day on which Christ died, and it is very appropriately a day of fasting, silence, even sorrow. But each Sunday is a new Easter, and a day of great joy – reverent joy, but joy nonetheless.