Latin Mass Millennials

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If it weren’t for the hour drive to the nearest FSSP parish, I’d be a regular EF goer.
 
It would have been nice if he would have just said, “because I like it”, instead of trying to give his own generation the sole credit for craft beer, farmers markets, green manufacturing, and creating “authentic” workplace environments. I’m glad he is enjoying the fruits of the baby boomer’s and genX’s labor, but please don’t try to take credit for them.

Where does he get the idea that the advertising that’s targeted to millennials is “authentic” or unpretentious? Ads targeting millennials are the worst.

It’s ironic that he keeps using the word “authentic” over and over again.
 
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I will say. We youngins do crave authenticity. There’s a reason many young people flock to more traditional Latin masses and high novus ordo masses. We want the masses celebrated by the saints of old.
 
giuseppe96 said:
If it weren’t for the hour drive to the nearest FSSP parish, I’d be a regular EF goer.
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Are you alone in this sentiment or do you think there might be others in your parish/geographical locale who sympathize? I don’t know of any case in which the supply of E.F. preceded the demand. If the demand is there but otherwise hidden or unknown the supply will never be actualized. 😉
 
Just my anecdotal observation: I’ve been seeing a heck of a lot of new faces at our diocesan EF ever since the recent round of scandals broke. It could be a coincidence, sure, but something has to explain the uptick in interest. It’s not even like the EF is new to our parish or diocese. In fact for a while we were starting to worry we reached “Peak Latin Mass”.

Edit: For what it’s worth, I was a Latin Mass Millennial before it was cool. 😛
 
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I think there are a few others at my parish, but most of the TLM lovers flocked to the new FSSP parish a few years ago. When I finish school, I’ll try to move somewhere closer.
 
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I’m technically a millennial (a mid 30s millennial). All I can say is that this article showcases some of the least enviable millennial characteristics. “Millennials crave authenticity” so long as it fits their idealized assumptions about what is authentic with a dose of trendiness (craft beer, farmer’s markets, farm to table, etc.). Smh :woman_facepalming:t5:
 
He might be an idiot but at least he’s supporting the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. 😆
 
But…but…

…many of these crimes and abuses took place before Vatican II and were perpetrated by priests who said Latin Mass!

So it makes no sense to go to a Latin Mass because of disgust over priest sinfulness. The Latin Mass priests (of the past) are allegedly guilty of many of the offenses.

I’m not trying to blame the Latin Mass, so please don’t jump all over me. There were many practices common back in those days that made it easier for priests (and Protestant pastors, too) to prey on children and teenagers; e.g., overnight trips with priests, priests being alone with boys, etc. These things simply aren’t allowed nowadays, although I know that priests (and others) still find ways to commit sexual assaults.

I just find it unbelievably ignorant and naive that millennials would think that going to Latin Mass will somehow–do what?! The crimes took place in parishes where the Latin Mass was said! This doesn’t make any sense to me at all.
 
That’s exactly what one of my old priests said, he should know too. He was abused in Seminary.
 
Fr. Zuhlsdorf read the same article and reflects on it, or rather, rants on it HERE. He makes much of the loss of Latin, but I’m not so sure that’s the main thing. Growing up in the pre Vatican II Church, I was fascinated by the Roman Canon, and thought the language was awesome. But I was reading it slowly in English from my Latin-English missal. My parish priest did not sound so awesome when reciting it at Mass.

When we got the English Mass, the first English translation was not nearly so awe inspiring. It was described as deliberately “spare,” as opposed, I suppose, to flowery. But it seemed to me that the first ICEL translation had extracted the soul of the Roman Canon. Latin is and has been the language of the Church, but English is not unsuitable to worship if it is not so stripped down as to sound like a news feed.
 
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This doesn’t make any sense to me at all.
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Maybe they find the priests who celebrate EF to be more focused on Church basics? I think it requires a great amount of extra energy to learn and celebrate Mass in Latin, using the old rubrics.

The priest who celebrated Mass (OF) in my parish this weekend always says “sisters and brothers” instead of “brothers and sisters” or “brethren.” I doubt that sort of thing occurs during an EF Mass (although I probably won’t be able to hear it or understand it).
 
I dont see much difference in ratio of millennials at my EF parish as compared previous NO parish.
 
Really? This is what you complain about?
“Sisters & brothers” instead of “brothers & sisters”?

What difference does it make?
 
How is it deviating from the rubrics?
The greeting means exactly the same thing regardless of which sibling is put first.

Mountain meet molehill.
 
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