TLM parishes Vs territorial parish culture?

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As a child I used to attend one parish which was modern attached to my school and my grandmother took me to a traditional parish.

I say…whichever makes your love for Jesus grow go to that parish. You can attend mass outside your parish…I go to 3…
School parish snd the parish my daughter sings in choir and my more traditional one.
 
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Actually there are quite a few Latin Mass Parishes-I’m thinking of the FSSP which has two churches in the greater Seattle area-one in Edmonds and another in Tacoma.
These are considered parishes at large with a broad territorial reach. The FSSP is in the area at the invitation of the Archbishop.
For those looking for a FSSP parish, this link may be helpful:

 
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It will be difficult to receive the other sacraments and pastoral guidance not living in that community.
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Confession at our FSSP parish begins before Mass, continues up to communion and resumes post communion and after mass if necessary. Access to the sacrament if much more available than at my local ordinary form church which offers confession for a half hour each week and by appointment.
In terms of pastoral guidance, the priest ,himself, prepares converts for their baptism, first Eucharist and confirmation and often offers additional instruction or evenings of recollection to further support faith formation.
 
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I never heard of a “traditional parish,” just parishes that have one TLM Mass.
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There are traditional parishes that do everything according to pre-Vatican II. I’ve been to two of them. They do not celebrate OF Masses at all. They are typically run by FSSP or ICKSP or other group of traditionalist priests with the approval of the local bishop.

There are other parishes that focus on TLM but also celebrate one or two OF Masses, sometimes in a foreign language, for the residents of the area. Typically this happens when there aren’t enough local Catholics to keep the church open, so they partner with a traditionalist group to take over running the place on the condition that the small group of local Hungarians can still have Mass in Hungarian 2 days a week or whatever. These parishes become essentially “traditionalist parishes” as the TLM Masses are likely to bring in the lions share of attendees.

And no, it’s not difficult to receive pastoral guidance and sacraments at a TLM parish if you don’t happen to live a few blocks from it. Those who go out of their way to attend TLM will make time to get there for spiritual needs, and the priests are accommodating. As someone else said, the confession time windows are much longer, and the priests are much more involved in catechesis and spiritual guidance than your typical OF priest is nowadays.
 
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As someone else said, the confession time windows are much longer, and the priests are much more involved in catechesis and spiritual guidance than your typical OF priest is nowadays.
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A Catholic priest is a Catholic priest. 24 hours a day. Let’s not get into labels.

I welcome the growth of fssp, hope they come to my diocese.

In my Diocese, Diocesan priests are run ragged, often covering a large parish or two, by themselves. They don’t have a flock that is mostly already intensely spiritual, they deal with the whole range, from intensely spiritual, to moderately, to those who have just a tiny connection to the Faith.

So yeah, welcome fssp or other Religious orders that fill a niche, but don’t compare to “typical OF” priests.
 
extra territorial parish. Our Bishop (Cardinal Farell) established it in response to Pope Benedict XVI’s moto propio. It works very similiarly, I would assume, as the 2 Vietnamese and one Chinese extra territorial parishes in our diocese that are latin rite, but serve those ethnic groups in their language.
 
Yeah, I would respect anyone that took up the call to be a priest, it’s not an easy role regardless of the rite of the church.

The priest in my church is still celebrating Mass at 80, even though he could have retired but he does this due to passion and a lack of priests in the parish. Though some might see it as comparing priests, but I respect the priests who are willing to give up their lives to serve God through the sacrament of Holy Orders.
 
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extra territorial parish. Our Bishop (Cardinal Farell) established it in response to Pope Benedict XVI’s moto propio. It works very similiarly, I would assume, as the 2 Vietnamese and one Chinese extra territorial parishes in our diocese that are latin rite, but serve those ethnic groups in their language.
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huh? How would a Vietnamese and Chinese “extra territorial parish” work?

Are you sure you don’t mean “Personal Parish”?

A Persona Parish has the boundaries of the diocese (or when more than one is created of the same kind, they can have boundaries)
 
We don’t have a free standing parish, but a very active diocesan TLM community colocated in a parish where the OF is offered. It is separate from the parish itself. It appears the TLM Community activity (frequent Masses, catechesis, retreats, etc) is as great as the parish per se. The parish, which has a tremendous history, was visited by a couple saints, was slated for closing, but the TLM is keeping it open.

The TLM community is very, very friendly, with socials after Mass. They who know how to fast also know how to feast. They worship intensely, then socialize intensely outside the church.
 
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I am using the wrong canonical term. Sorry. They are parishes exactly as you describe. That is what I mean.
 
I’m simply being honest. A TLM priest has a different “mission statement” than your average OF parish priest. OF parishes are often either huge and have Catholics with all kinds of focuses and many who do not know much about Church teaching, or else they are located in poorer communities that have economic needs. EF parishes tend to be smaller and draw a dedicated group of well-catechized Catholics who strongly support the parish. It’s a different business model, and we may as well just say so.
 
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I’ve been a parishioner at both. I found TLM more friendly but the TLM parish was a lot smaller so it was easier to meet people. If you have a niche like choir or something it will of course be easier in either parish.
 
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