If your parish offered the following Sunday OF Masses, which would you most commonly choose?

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If your parish offered the following OF Masses, which would you most commonly choose?
  • Early morning, as short as possible, Mass.
  • Family-oriented Mass. Lotta kiddos.
  • Solemn, “bells and smells” Mass.
  • The social Mass -the most talking of all Masses.
  • Teen/college student-oriented Mass.
  • The most neutral of all Masses offered.
  • Mass celebrated in the Spanish language.
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It’s a shame the poll doesn’t include the Extraordinary Form, the Ordinary Form in Latin celebrated Ad Orientem, and the Ordinariate Liturgy. All three are excellent.
 
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It’s a shame the poll doesn’t include the Extraordinary Form, the Ordinary Form in Latin celebrated Ad Orientem, and the Ordinariate Liturgy. All three are excellent.
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Yeah but then the EF/OF argument would never end.
 
What, only in Spanish? No choice of type of bells , pipe organ? Where did the incense go? What about a mass free of the clutter, or full of, the clutter and chatter of disability aids.

What about the streamers on the loud fences.

Seriously Duesenburg , today, next week, Cardinal Pell is back in court. This time next week the global media circus / paparazzi starts up and it’s going to be all anti catholic, pro SSM and any other issue that can be latched onto to ‘prove’ catholic clergy and laity have no right to speak about morality.

Think about that for a while.

Regardless of our other beliefs, we are Catholic, we are going to have to dig deep and find some solidarity. What if Cardinal Pell is found guilty in this trial? What if he isn’t? What’s the collateral damage to your church, to mine?
 
A Mass is a Mass, doesn’t matter what kind.
 
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Yes, but…My preference will always be the Solemn “bells & smells” Mass. However participating in the Mass at any time will always serve. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to have a preferred style of Mass. I live in small town and the Catholic parish there is very modern and contemporary. In the bigger town 20 miles away the Catholic parish is more traditional. The traditional is my preference and that is where I attend Mass.

I’m not saying one is right and the other is wrong. I’m just saying I have a preference.
 
Saxum said:
It’s a shame the poll doesn’t include the Extraordinary Form, the Ordinary Form in Latin celebrated Ad Orientem, and the Ordinariate Liturgy. All three are excellent.
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I would have if that’s what I was trying to measure but it’s not.

No “shame”, none at all.
 
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Yes, but…My preference will always be the Solemn “bells & smells” Mass. However participating in the Mass at any time will always serve. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to have a preferred style of Mass. I live in small town and the Catholic parish there is very modern and contemporary. In the bigger town 20 miles away the Catholic parish is more traditional. The traditional is my preference and that is where I attend Mass.

I’m not saying one is right and the other is wrong. I’m just saying I have a preference.
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I agree 100% with your comments. No one even hinted at the notion that one or more of these Masses was “better” than any of the others. I asked “which would you most commonly choose?” In other words, which type do you prefer? That is all. I think there’s real value in asking such questions.
 
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They are all valid, and I would attend all but the “bells and smells” as I would die. I find the Spanish Masses incredbly lively–more than the Lifeteen Masses I attended as a teen.

As a College student, I did appreciate that the priest wrote his homilies for us and not for parents, elders and young children. Because the 7PM Sunday Mass was ONLY students he was very free to preach on any controversial subject without fear of offending young ears. Other than that it was an average Mass --well minus the copious use of “We are Called”.
 
Neutral. Our parish is on the neutral scale of the choices, and I’m happy with it.
 
Huh? Sort of random, doncha think?
Spanish? Loud fences? Disability aids?
I’m not sure who Cardinal Pell is, TBH.
 
I’d choose the Traditional Tridentine (Latin) Mass. The focus is on worshiping God (not each other).
 
Wow! That is neat; as I choose the OF mass, where we focus on the worship God, not one another. How cool that they are so similar.
 
I live part time in a college town and during the school year the Newman Center has a 9 pm on Sunday. I go to that one frequently. It makes good sense too for them to have their Sunday masses at 5 pm and 9 pm because there is a parish church a short distance away with all morning masses.
 
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