Thinking about making a "Traditional Catholic" club in my Catholic High School

[starchyp]

Hello all
I have this idea in my head about starting a “Traditionalists” club in my Catholic high school. There are teachers who would be interested in acting as moderators. The main reason I want to try to do this is because: 1. To raise awareness about the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, and 2. To organize those of us who follow traditions and other old practices. After there is a teacher refusing to call God the Father the “Father,” and another teacher devoted into radical liberation theology, I think that if a traditional Catholic club is started, then we will be able to slowly raise awareness throughout school and maybe put pressure on those who are dissenting. We might even be able to influence the Masses that are held in school. Any ideas, comments, and advice is greatly appreciated. Does this seem like a good and realistic idea?

 

[Monica37]

God Bless you!! The education field (even Catholic schools) has not been very kind to conservative or traditional ideas. I would do it if you feel you can get a sponsor and a group together. You may get some flack, but try anyway.

I would write up a proposal outlining your reasons for wanting to start this club. State only your positive reasons, such as exploring the church’s rich history through the EF and traditional practices, creating a welcoming culture for those students who are seeking a traditional and prayerful life, encouraging living out an authentically Catholic lifestlye through an indepth study of Catholic history and tradition, an awareness of the Traditional Latin Mass. I would not include anything negative about the practices or beliefs of anyone else. Just talk about what you are looking for.
Then get everyone interested to sign it. Talk to all your classmates. You may be surprised at how many would love to see a Traditional Latin Mass. Many may not have even heard of one. Appeal to a sense of history and culture. A lot of students may sign just so they have the ability to go if not the desire right now. Many peopl don’t want to feel like they are missing out on something so they may sign. Once you get it there, you may find many will fall in love with traditional catholism like you have

Best of luck and let us know how it went.

 

[keepitreal]

God Bless you!! The education field (even Catholic schools) has not been very kind to conservative or traditional ideas. I would do it if you feel you can get a sponsor and a group together. You may get some flack, but try anyway.

I would write up a proposal outlining your reasons for wanting to start this club. State only your positive reasons, such as exploring the church’s rich history through the EF and traditional practices, creating a welcoming culture for those students who are seeking a traditional and prayerful life, encouraging living out an authentically Catholic lifestlye through an indepth study of Catholic history and tradition, an awareness of the Traditional Latin Mass. I would not include anything negative about the practices or beliefs of anyone else. Just talk about what you are looking for.
Then get everyone interested to sign it. Talk to all your classmates. You may be surprised at how many would love to see a Traditional Latin Mass. Many may not have even heard of one. Appeal to a sense of history and culture. A lot of students may sign just so they have the ability to go if not the desire right now. Many peopl don’t want to feel like they are missing out on something so they may sign. Once you get it there, you may find many will fall in love with traditional catholism like you have

Best of luck and let us know how it went.

Conservatives would kick you out for being too “radical”, and Liberals for being too “crazy”.

 

[VeronicaAnne]

hmmm… how about “orthodox” Catholic?

I say this because using the word “traditional Catholic” sounds like there is such a thing/person.

Unless an adjective other than one that denotes any of the more than 20 rites of the Catholic church causes confusion.

In other words, using the term “Traditional Catholic” denotes a rite that does not exist. Non-Catholics… and uninformed / uneducated Catholics… will consider that there is yet another break in the unity of the Catholic Church.

When, in fact, that is NOT what you are intending to convey.

Here’s a link to a brief article at EWTN that goes into more detail about the various rites in the Catholic Church. I copy-pasted one paragraph that summarizes my point.

So… to reach your objective… I strongly suggest that you might want to seriously consider NOT referring to political terms (such as “conservative” or “liberal” or even “traditional”) when you describe the Catholic Church…

And oh, by the way, there is NO such thing as “the Traditional Latin Mass.” What folks who use that term mean is the “Tridentine” Mass… which has been declared by Pope Benedict XVI as the “Extraordinary Form.” The “ordinary form” of the Mass is still the Novus Ordo.

ewtn.com/expert/answers/catholic_rites_and_churches.htm

There are three major groupings of Rites based on this initial transmission of the faith, the Roman, the Antiochian (Syria) and the Alexandrian (Egypt). Later on the Byzantine derived as a major Rite from the Antiochian, under the influence of St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom. From these four derive the over 20 liturgical Rites present in the Church today.

Some official information is at EWTN… here…

ewtn.com/liturgy/traditional/Resources.htm

God be with you in your struggle to spread the Good News!

 

[bkovacs]

Go for it !!!