Poll: where do you stand as a traditionalist?

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I’m going to attempt to post a poll. I hope it works.

OK, I was wondering how many people feel certain ways about attending NO Masses. So, if you could pick the one option that best describes you:
  1. I will not attend a Novus Ordo Mass, no matter what, even if I am unable to make it to any other Mass. If I can’t get to a Traditional Latin Mass, I will stay at home.
  2. On Sunday, I will attend a NO Mass if there is no other possible option, but I will drive quite a distance to get to a TLM, and I won’t attend a weekday Mass if NO is my only option.
  3. On Sunday, I will go to great lengths to attend a TLM, but I will attend a NO Mass on weekdays or other occassions.
  4. I prefer a TLM, but if it’s not convenient I just go to a NO Mass.
  5. I like the TLM, but I happily go to a NO Mass, too.
  6. I do not like the TLM and prefer the NO Mass.
 
HOPEFUL_IN_UK said:
I’m going to attempt to post a poll. I hope it works.

OK, I was wondering how many people feel certain ways about attending NO Masses. So, if you could pick the one option that best describes you:
  1. I will not attend a Novus Ordo Mass, no matter what, even if I am unable to make it to any other Mass. If I can’t get to a Traditional Latin Mass, I will stay at home.
  2. On Sunday, I will attend a NO Mass if there is no other possible option, but I will drive quite a distance to get to a TLM, and I won’t attend a weekday Mass if NO is my only option.
  3. On Sunday, I will go to great lengths to attend a TLM, but I will attend a NO Mass on weekdays or other occassions.
  4. I prefer a TLM, but if it’s not convenient I just go to a NO Mass.
  5. I like the TLM, but I happily go to a NO Mass, too.
  6. I do not like the TLM and prefer the NO Mass.
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I hope I do not cause you too much distress in that it appears your attempt to start a poll has failed. That said, I would like to register my vote for a possible #7, acknowledging indifference between the two.
 
Other_Eric said:
I hope I do not cause you too much distress in that it appears your attempt to start a poll has failed. That said, I would like to register my vote for a possible #7, acknowledging indifference between the two.
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Nah, it just takes a while to get the poll posted - the post goes up and THEN you make the poll.

I think you mean that you would say #5, which was meant to convey no preference.
 
HOPEFUL_IN_UK said:
Nah, it just takes a while to get the poll posted - the post goes up and THEN you make the poll.

I think you mean that you would say #5, which was meant to convey no preference.
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Well, I briefly considered #5, it is true, but it seemed to me that the formulation “I like TLM but I happily go to a NO Mass, too” implies a sort of preference, however slight, that simply does not exist for me.
 
I prefer the TLM, and there are times when I won’t go to a N.O. Mass because of the way it is done in a particular Parish. I go to the TLM on a Sunday and all feasts and solemnities, and it takes some effort. But at the same time, there are occasions I go to the N.O…
 
“Like” is a difficult word.

I reverence the EF, but I would always prefer to go to the OF…until the day the EF is offered audibly in the vernacular with a degree more simplicity, in which case I would probably prefer the EF.
 
JKirkLVNV said:
“Like” is a difficult word.

I reverence the EF, but I would always prefer to go to the OF…until the day the EF is offered audibly in the vernacular with a degree more simplicity, in which case I would probably prefer the EF.
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I respect your opinion, but you are not describing the EF. You are describing a new Liturgy. The Forma Extraordinaria is what it is, and will remain so.

What you are describing comes close to an improved Ordinary Form. Or a hybrid Mass.

Anyhow, I voted # 5. I attend both forms.
 
I polled this one: ;On Sunday, I will go to great lengths to attend a TLM, but I will attend a NO Mass on weekdays or other occassions.’

But I wish there were an option for: ‘On Sunday, I will attend a NO Mass if there is no other possible option, but I will drive quite a distance to get to a TLM, but I will attend a NO Mass on weekdays or other occasions.’
 
Yeah, I tried to do that, but there are length limits on poll options so I had to edit quite a lot.

Pick the one that is closest to what you feel.

it’s not really feasible to have hundreds of options, including things like, “I prefer the TLM and I drive two hours to get to one, but if it’s snowing heavily and I don’t think the salt trucks will be out in time, then I will go to the NO nearest to my house, but if I think the salt trucks will be doing a good job, then I will drive one hour to a NO that is more reverent than most and I sometimes go to weekday Mass at a parish near my mother’s but I won’t go to weekday Mass at my neighborhood parish unless it’s a Holy Day of Obligation…”
 
HOPEFUL_IN_UK said:
it’s not really feasible to have hundreds of options, including things like, “I prefer the TLM and I drive two hours to get to one, but if it’s snowing heavily and I don’t think the salt trucks will be out in time, then I will go to the NO nearest to my house, but if I think the salt trucks will be doing a good job, then I will drive one hour to a NO that is more reverent than most and I sometimes go to weekday Mass at a parish near my mother’s but I won’t go to weekday Mass at my neighborhood parish unless it’s a Holy Day of Obligation…”
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But that sounds just like me! 😛 👍
 
I_Believe said:
I respect your opinion, but you are not describing the EF. You are describing a new Liturgy. The Forma Extraordinaria is what it is, and will remain so.

What you are describing comes close to an improved Ordinary Form. Or a hybrid Mass.

Anyhow, I voted # 5. I attend both forms.
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On the contrary, it would still be the EF. One of the things Pope Benedict said as a cardinal is that there really should be one liturgy and that obviously it should be the older form, but that it could be offered in the vernacular.
 
There isn’t an option for ‘I’d go to any Mass as long as it is Roman Catholic.’
 
I prefer the older rite but I will attend a special occasion Mass of the bishop or Pope, regardless of which rite he says it or which language. God bless all priests, however.
 
I just want Jesus. It is recieving Jesus. It is knowing that Jesus is present. St Francis was challenged about wether he would still go to a Mass with a Priest serving who was in known sin.

His replied: “I would recieve the blessed Lord from his Holy Hand” or something to that effect.

I am too young a convert to know from whom and what etc. All I know is that the Priest stands in persona of Christ; even if ilicit it is still valid; right?
Michael:)
 
JKirkLVNV said:
On the contrary, it would still be the EF. One of the things Pope Benedict said as a cardinal is that there really should be one liturgy and that obviously it should be the older form, but that it could be offered in the vernacular.
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Yes, but what did you mean by “with a degree more simplicity” ?

I read that as “with changes” other than language. Or did you simply mean venacular would make it easier to understand ?
 
I couldn’t find a poll option that really fit me, so I chose #3. I always go to the TLM, and there is a church nearby that offers the TLM twice daily, along with the other sacraments in the traditional form. I would travel some distance to go there if I had to. If it wasn’t an option, I’d go to the NO, but that’s never happened.
 
HOPEFUL_IN_UK said:
I’m going to attempt to post a poll. I hope it works.

OK, I was wondering how many people feel certain ways about attending NO Masses. So, if you could pick the one option that best describes you:
  1. I will not attend a Novus Ordo Mass, no matter what, even if I am unable to make it to any other Mass. If I can’t get to a Traditional Latin Mass, I will stay at home.
  2. On Sunday, I will attend a NO Mass if there is no other possible option, but I will drive quite a distance to get to a TLM, and I won’t attend a weekday Mass if NO is my only option.
  3. On Sunday, I will go to great lengths to attend a TLM, but I will attend a NO Mass on weekdays or other occassions.
  4. I prefer a TLM, but if it’s not convenient I just go to a NO Mass.
  5. I like the TLM, but I happily go to a NO Mass, too.
  6. I do not like the TLM and prefer the NO Mass.
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I chose 5 - with one correction: that I prefer the revised Missal; but I would attend Mass offered in the extra-ordinary form [EF] (which is what it seems to be called by Rome). 🙂​

 
I’m floating between 2 and 3. Sometimes I feel like flouncing my skirts and saying “#1!” but luckily I have so far never been in a situation where I couldn’t get to a Sunday TLM… except one awful week where I had to go to my parents’ church and the family in front of us talked and laughed almost all the way through Mass. Luckily they stopped at the Consecration–I was afraid that if they didn’t, I would have shouted at them “Please stop talking! This is important!” or burst into tears.
 
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