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mburn16
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Hello all,
You’ll have to excuse the late posting, but I was busy earlier this week.
I finally had the opportunity to attend the Tridentine mass here in Detroit, and as promised, I’m reporting back on my thoughts of the experience. It was certainly interesting, and it is obviously enlightening to see how mass was conducted in the past. Hymns were sung, a bonus in my view, since not all churches which hold a Latin Mass use hymns.
I must admit, however, it was not without disappointment. They used a rather confusing system to help worshipers follow the service (I don’t own a missal - certainly not the 1962 version), it was spread out over three different items, a generic pocket missal, a sheet with the current readings, and a separate sheet for the specific prayers for the day - trying to keep track and follow along, in my view, seemed to distract from worship of God and reflection upon what was actually happening. I felt more like an observer of the mass than anything, not different from watching a TLM online.
I was also surprised to see the number of women who chose to wear veils (nothing in the church said it was required, and it was still no more than 40%), but also by the lack of confession before mass (in contradiction to the website and bulletin).
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Would I do it again? Probably, and I very well may in the near future. Would I make it my regular method of worship? Probably not.
You’ll have to excuse the late posting, but I was busy earlier this week.
I finally had the opportunity to attend the Tridentine mass here in Detroit, and as promised, I’m reporting back on my thoughts of the experience. It was certainly interesting, and it is obviously enlightening to see how mass was conducted in the past. Hymns were sung, a bonus in my view, since not all churches which hold a Latin Mass use hymns.
I must admit, however, it was not without disappointment. They used a rather confusing system to help worshipers follow the service (I don’t own a missal - certainly not the 1962 version), it was spread out over three different items, a generic pocket missal, a sheet with the current readings, and a separate sheet for the specific prayers for the day - trying to keep track and follow along, in my view, seemed to distract from worship of God and reflection upon what was actually happening. I felt more like an observer of the mass than anything, not different from watching a TLM online.
I was also surprised to see the number of women who chose to wear veils (nothing in the church said it was required, and it was still no more than 40%), but also by the lack of confession before mass (in contradiction to the website and bulletin).
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Would I do it again? Probably, and I very well may in the near future. Would I make it my regular method of worship? Probably not.
