The modern traditional Catholic

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It is funny most people think you have to dress Amish in order to be traditional. I get lots of looks for expressing such views while being tattooed and having gagged ears. Even people I do not know in the Parish can point me out on the street.

It seems that people can not view you as traditional if you like heavy metal and hard rock. God gave us all gifts, I think mine is to show people that a sinful past can be used to win people to Christ.

Have any of yous come across a mod-trad Catholic I am coining the term lol or if you are one how has your experiences been with more “Amishish” traditionalists?

Older Catholics seem to find it hard to pigeon hole me because of my strict morals, respect and reverence.

God Bless

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It is funny most people think you have to dress Amish in order to be traditional. I get lots of looks for expressing such views while being tattooed and having gagged ears. Even people I do not know in the Parish can point me out on the street.

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Older Catholics seem to find it hard to pigeon hole me because of my strict morals, respect and reverence.

God Bless

EC
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I have no idea what “gagged” ears are, but I suspect that involves some sort of self-mutilation. Respectfully, I feel that shows a decided **lack of **respect and reverence for God’s creation, your own body. The same goes for the ostentatious, multiple visible tatoos that have become fashionable.

I follow (conservative) social norms in dressing. I do not appear “Amish.”

My :twocents:
 
  • Guaged ears (right now at a 6, getting ready to switch to a 4) Check!
  • tattoos (I have 4, and am in the process of designing a whole back piece)… Check!
  • Like listening to Led Zepplin, Queen, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Boston, and Thin Lizzy (and that’s just scratching the surface… My mom and I fight over CD’s)… Check!
  • Very pro-life. Check!
  • Encourage those who ask my opinion to remain chaste according to their state in life… Check!
  • Really like bells, incense, and Latin! CHECK!
  • Feel very uncomfortable entering any church (or leaving my apartment) without * something * on my head… Check!
  • Only time I show either my knees or elbows in public (not always been the case, though) is either getting a pedicure and manicure, or I have an appointment with my orthopedic who operated on my knee about 2 months ago. Check!
I’ve not always been very traditional, though… and I used to be more liberal than the liberals (not anymore, thanks be to God). In my past, I would not have been surprised if I broke all 10 Commandments in one day (and sometimes in an hour :blushing:), but through His graces, my will is a bit more aligned with his. Not quite there yet, and I fall frequently (I am human, after all)… but if he could soften my heart and change me from who I was, then there is hope for each and every single person on this earth.

God bless!
Ericka
 
6 tattoos although I don’t really wear jewelry much and earrings bother my ears

wear long dresses but don’t always cover my elbows, drawn to cover my hair, kneeling and communion on the tongue Latin mass lover, pro life ect I listen to everything from classical to emo to led zepp to DMB to punk pop.
 
I’m a modern traditionalist. I think most people are. The Amish-looking traditionalist seems to be just a stereotype as I have never actually met a Catholic who looks or dresses like this.

I attend the EF and I prefer traditional Catholic spirituality but that doesn’t make me nostalgic for the past. I am perfectly at ease with modernity and wouldn’t have it any other way.

I dress fashionably, I have tattoos, and I don’t look any different from the average Catholic who attends the OF. The myths and stereotypes surrounding traditional Catholicism are not true. We are normal people who prefer to pray in a certain way - nothing more, and nothing less.
 
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