Traditionalists: What are the customs that you follow?

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I know about no meat on Friday, the three hour Eucharistic fast, Communion on the tongue, but what other things do you do? I have heard that whenever you pass a Catholic Church you do the sign of the cross and the St. Michael Prayer when you hear sirens.

I am a conservative Catholic that is interested in Traditionalism.
 
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I can’t add much to what you’ve described except for what other Catholic (traditional or not) might do. My husband and I have a home altar, which we use daily for prayer. We keep track of the feasts of the saints for particular days. And like you stated above, we don’t eat meat on Fridays at all. I wear dresses and skirts exclusively. I head cover at Mass and at all other times as well, but not all of us do that.
 
Ladies cover head in Church.
Genuflect when passing the Tabernacle.
Kneel (both knees) when the Blessed Sacrament is exposed, or (again, both knees) when passing the Blessed Sacrament when exposed.
Pray for the conversion of heretics, schismatics, Muslims, Jews, all other non believers.
Baptize our children ASAP
We’re never gift bearers, lectors, or Eucharistic Ministers.
Pray to the Virgin Mary, devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and have all our holy things (candles - which we constantly light - images, sacramentals, water, salt, medicine…) blessed ASAP
get our homes blessed on a yearly basis

i’m sure i’ve forgotten a few…anyone else?🙂
 
When you hear someone has died, you cross yourself and pray the Eternal Rest:

“Eternal rest grant unto him/her (them), O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon him/her (them). May he/she (they) rest in peace. Amen”

Also when you cross by a cemetery.

Learn prayers in Latin.
 
To add to what’s already been said (and note that these aren’t exclusive to Traditionalists):

Abstaining from meat on Wednesday (the day Our Lord was betrayed)
first Saturday devotion
plenary indulgences (for saying the Rosary, etc)
having large families (specifically, being open to children)
Eucharistic fast from midnight the night before Mass
prayer before meals
blessing cars/houses/motorcycles/anything
Divine Mercy chaplet
home altars w/ statues/icons/holy pictures/candles/etc.

There’s much more but that’ll do for now.

You can check out this site if you want Traditionalist overload: fisheaters.com/beingcatholic.html
 
There are a variety of prayers said when sirens are heard, including the Hail Mary, the St. Michael prayer, and various ejaculations. The latter were/are particularly common in big cities, where sirens can be heard very frequently and the prayer thus recited many times in a day. I have always used, “Pray for them, O Holy Mother of God, that they may be delivered from their distress.” This can easily be prayed by one or more persons.
 
Thanks for this thread!
I think being Traditional is believing in all the Church doctrine not just some of it. When I was talking about the Pope with another Catholic they said to me “I like to make up my own mind about things”
I said…I follow the Pope !!!
Amazing how many “Catholics” don’t believe even half of what the Church teaches.
 
latinmasslover said:
Ladies cover head in Church.
Genuflect when passing the Tabernacle.
Kneel (both knees) when the Blessed Sacrament is exposed, or (again, both knees) when passing the Blessed Sacrament when exposed.
Pray for the conversion of heretics, schismatics, Muslims, Jews, all other non believers.
Baptize our children ASAP
We’re never gift bearers, lectors, or Eucharistic Ministers.
Pray to the Virgin Mary, devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and have all our holy things (candles - which we constantly light - images, sacramentals, water, salt, medicine…) blessed ASAP
get our homes blessed on a yearly basis

i’m sure i’ve forgotten a few…anyone else?🙂
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Most women and girls at the Latin Mass I go to wear dresses and head coverings-many of which are those beautiful lacy mantillas I love. In fact I wear dresses & skirts to Mass instead of pants now that I’m attending the Latin Mass. And I bought a couple mantillas from eBay where I buy almost everything else.

We do a lot more kneeling at the Latin Mass than the people I’ve seen at the English Masses kneel. I even prayed that I’d be better able to kneel than I was at the English Masses. In October a big dog dragged me into the street and bruised my knee so bad that for a while I couldn’t kneel at all. By February 1 this year, when I attended our Latin Mass for the first time, my knee was a lot better which did allow me to kneel a lot more than I did in November of last year.

We’re not Eucharistic ministers, gift bearers, or lectors at our Latin Mass. In fact we usually have one priest say the Mass and he takes care of the Communion and Scripture readings himself.

I hope the other people attending Mass are praying for the Muslims, Jews, atheists, and others who are non-Catholic or fallen-away Catholics.

Several women at the Latin Mass have had babies after I had started attending the Mass. They were about a week old. I sat in on the Confirmation class that the Latin Mass priest taught and learned a lot in that class. He said parents have an obligation to have their children baptised by the time they’re 2 weeks old.

(At another parish I used to belong to the parents had to complete a Baptism class before having their child baptised. And the babies were about 3 months old when baptised. I thought it would be a good idea for the parents to take the class during the 3rd trimester of the pregnancy so the baby doesn’t have to wait so long.)

The Latin Mass priest said the kids in the confirmation class had to memorize some prayers that were grouped together in a binder he gave me and them. I have a few of them memorized in English but I’m still working on my Apostles’ Creed so I don’t have to keep looking it up every time I want to say a Rosary. And I’ve been confirmed over 30 years ago.

The Latin term Note Bene (NB) meaning “Note Well” has been popping up quite a bit in our binders and Father told us what it meant. He also had us start off the class by singing a few verses of “Veni Creator Spiritus” in Latin and kneeling on the floor during verse 1.

We pray to Mary too and have a 5-decade Rosary before Mass. We have two high Masses every month and the rest low Masses. Father hears Confessions before every Mass and after every High Mass.

He usually stays for breakfast after he hears Confessions after High Mass. He then has to drive about 100 miles to say Mass in another city and has to leave immediately after the Low Mass.

Father encourages us to confess behind the screen. In fact I only confessed to him face-to-face once, but that was because he thought he was done hearing Confessions and saw me as he started to leave. So he already knew who I was.

One of the laypeople taught his son to confess behind the screen too and I suspect that’s what the others in the congregation do too.
 
Customs are important as a Traditionalist, but I think more importantly is the way we think. Today, sadly enough, many Catholics are turning to more of a Liberal view: women priests, married priests, pro-choice, civil unions, just to name a few. As a traditionalist, our customs should be to pray for our church, our beautiful catholic faith, so that we will not succomb to today’s pressures of straying away from our traditions.
 
Hello friend. I am a 20 year old traditional Catholic in the sense that I attend the usus antiquor whenever I can. I’d highly recommend learning and getting into the traditional mass. It can be a little daunting at first. But it is worth it. A Baptist pastor who was able to attend an eastern divine liturgy once said that it “was liturgy that demanded something of me.” Remember that the mass demands alot out of you. But it is very reverent and beautiful.
As for traditional practices. Well praying the rosary and reading the Bible are definitely other traditional practices that bring us closer to Jesus. I recommend them as well.:)
 
catholic_rock said:
Customs are important as a Traditionalist, but I think more importantly is the way we think. Today, sadly enough, many Catholics are turning to more of a Liberal view: women priests, married priests, pro-choice, civil unions, just to name a few. As a traditionalist, our customs should be to pray for our church, our beautiful catholic faith, so that we will not succumb to today’s pressures of straying away from our traditions.
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I agree with Catholic Rock; our customs as Traditionalists are important but not as much as our way of thinking. As much as I enjoyed being a part of the parish I belonged to before I rejoined the parish I belong to now I have to admit I’ve felt almost overwhelmed by these liberals and their ideas. I had friends there who wanted women to be priests and who had no problem with The Vagina Monologues and The DaVinci Code.

In fact I took part in some class or Bible study at that church where such liberal ideas-at least about women priests-were expressed. The priest who taught this class gave us a packet of Xeroxed magazine articles including one on women priests. He explained that John Paul II’s statement on women priests wasn’t really infallible since there was one thing he didn’t do that he needed to to make an infallible statement. I trusted the priest enough to tell him he opened my mind up a little about women’s ordination.

He said the Bishop who heard about his homily on The Vagina Monologues and didn’t like what the priest said from the pulpit and sent him a letter about it. I know the Bishop personally as well as reading about him in print and know he takes his Catholicism and his responsibilities as a Bishop seriously. I even wonder if he’s a Traditionalist who has to offer the Mass in English.

I think that the liberal thinkers of that parish were starting to influence my thinking. I think the Traditional Mass and the people and priest there have helped me get some of my thinking turned around-even if I were traditional in many ways even before leaving that other parish. It’s almost as if my back-not the priest’s-has been turned away from the altar. 😊

-sparkie:thumbsup:
 
CatholicChick said:
Thanks for this thread!
I think being Traditional is** believing in all the Church doctrine not just some of it**. When I was talking about the Pope with another Catholic they said to me “I like to make up my own mind about things”
I said…I follow the Pope !!!
Amazing how many “Catholics” don’t believe even half of what the Church teaches.
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“I affirm and profess all that the Catholic church teaches.” This is basic to being a Catholic, not only a ‘Traditional’ one.
 
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