Tridentine Mass( Extraordinary Mass) or Ordinary Mass?

[otjm]

Why does it have to be EF or OF? Why not both?

The hardest part of “both” is that the EF is said in very few parishes in the US. Several years ago I did a count of the number of parishes (including missions) in the Chicago diocese which had the EF at some time each month; out of over 300 parishes/missions, there were 12. Some could blame it on the Cardinal Archbishop, but George was not hesitant to promote it. There just was not sufficient demand for it. Thus for many, it is not realistically “both/and”.

 

[edwest2]

No, I don’t have quotes, as it has been a good bit of time since i crossed paths with some.

However, I can tell you what I observed. To a person, these people were not clear thinkers; another way of saying it is that they had no training in critical thinking. They use a tremendous amount of “post hoc, ergo propter hoc” illogic, blaming each and every activity/change/choice people have madE after Vatican 2 on the documents - documents which they either have not read, or have not understood. I could go on from there, but a simple way to sum it up is “Don’t confuse me with the facts, as I already have my mind made up”. They tend towards conspiracy thought patterns, and often have romanticized the past through the red lenses of time.

Hmmm… Romanticized the past. I don’t get that. Whatever choices people made were their choices. But I’ve confirmed that every problem that occurred after Vatican II was caused by radicals and dissidents inside and outside the Church. The documents excuse is not valid.

Ed

 

[ProVobis]

I’m glad that in this day and age the extraordinary form of the Mass can be celebrated as an organic and living form of the liturgy. The folks that concern me (and I have met a few) are the ones with the mindset that because the mass is from 1962 that they must live their lives according to the same era and that anything the church did after that is either inferior or invalid.

Good points.