’ve seen it happen occassionaly. I’ve gotten the feeling at times that a few of our Latin cousins think we’re… weird. Or just plain wrong. Or not really Catholic.
We’re the closest Catholic church to the airport, and average an unsuspecting visitor a week, typically finding us on
masttimes.org.
Brother Jude, an RC assigned to us, typically explains to them (and does a spectacular job).
We’ve only had one group walk out partway through, apparently deciding we “were too” orthodox.
And then there was that radtrad couple who goes to a “parish” set up by a renegade priest. They were absolutely convinced that every RC who came here was running from the
Novus Ordo. I futilely tried to explain that we had run
to to east, not
from the West, and that the “froms . . .” never last long, to no avail.
An then there were the ones that told our former priest, Fr. Nils of blessed memory, that their priest had told them to come to our parish when he was away because we had valid sacraments (as opposed to, you know, those parishes the Bishop of Las Vegas runs
).
He didn’t have much patiences for them. “I’m Roman Catholic, you know. So why is it invalid when I celebrate my own rite, but valid here?” He also didn’t have much patience for those (often the same people) who thought that Jesus spoke Latin: “what would he have one with it? Cuss out the roman soldiers?”
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