“Novus Ordo” and especially “NO” are pejorative slurs at this point in history.
I really don’t think I have ever met anyone who uses “Novus Ordo” or “NO” that didn’t do so in a quietly demeaning way.
i usually use this term but not in a demeaning way. i have been going to the traditional latin mass since 2000 but have re-started to go to the OF mass. at the traditional mass, this term is the norm, and so it was here that i learnt to use it. probably yes, some people used it in a derogatory way, but i do not.
we still say ‘tridentine’ mass as i only started to hear the term ‘extraordinary form’ being used after summorum pontificum; the same goes for the ‘ordinary form’. i guess that my parish, with many being traditional, stuck to the old “novus ordo” instaed of goin with the OF
as traditionalists stick to traditional things
so, i will try to use OF, but it will take some getting usde to, but ill still say tridentine mass (if there isn’e a reason for me not doing so)
back o the topic
it seems that to be a traditional catholic, the main thing is going to an EF mass, since that seems to be the most talked about.
as the 1st part of what CassiusLonginus said, a ‘traditional’ catholic is one who practices the traditional faith (no blurring of right and wrong, no compromising with error or sin) - but this is what all catholics should do, otherwise they are not a catholic!
maybe before, i could be seen as a traditional catholic, but now i have adopted the new mass as well as the old, i say 20 decades (i didn’t for a long time but now i love the mysteries of light just as much as the traditional 15) etc, but i still see myself as traditional - maybe not. i still hold to al what the church teaches etc.
i am cautious when change arises, but at the same time, that is sometimes necessary or enriching.
someome commenting on another thread said mentioned that to be truly a traditionalist, one must go right back to the mass before what we know as the tridentine / EF mass…
ave maria
