Visiting other churches that do the Latin mass

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Ever since discovering one of my local parishes and joining a parish that does the Latin mass 3x a week Ive been wanting to explore other parishes in my county and been searching up other parishes in my state that offer it. It’s just so beautiful, I’m feeling like a treasure explorer or something haha.

Anyone else do or have done the same thing?
 
I visit other Latin Mass parishes. I also visit other OF parishes, Eastern Catholic parishes, and I tried to go to the Ordinariate parish once but it was closed for repairs so I still have to visit there.

My visiting is a bit curtailed when I don’t have time to drive around, but MassTimes app really opens the door to a lot of interesting churches I never saw before.
 
Yes, the Latin mass is a masterpiece! We go to 3 different parishes lol. One near our home (available every other week…)

2nd we drive 1.5 hours to one available during one of the off Sundays.
3rd we drive 2.5 hours to a full time Latin mass parish on the other off Sunday.

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Yes, the Latin mass is a masterpiece! We go to 3 different parishes lol. One near our home (available every other week…)

2nd we drive 1.5 hours to one available during one of the off Sundays.
3rd we drive 2.5 hours to a full time Latin mass parish on the other off Sunday.

Then repeat
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2.5 hours?!?!? Thats pretty much a pilgrimage lol but for a full time latin mass that is truly worth the drive. I wouldnt have the fortitude for such a journey though
 
It’s not hard , only have to make the drive the one Sundy a month that’s it’s not available local.

The incredible beauty of the parish, and the exellent sermons make the drive well worth ir
 
As a rule of thumb for when I travel…my preference is to attend the EF Mass (if possible) so I can bet I won’t be walking into a OF parish with one liturgical abuse after another… as I’ve encountered several times in the past. 🙂 Sadly, sometimes the cathedrals are the worst with such irreverence towards to the Eucharist.

To answer your question, there are two parishes (we belong to one) and a shrine within 45mins of drive time from my house which offer the EF Mass. If my sons aren’t serving EF Mass at our parish, we’ll go to the other two occasionally. As for a beautify liturgy focused on Christ’s sacrifice/True Presence; my boys requested to not serve the OF anymore because the strong focus of Christ’s True Presence through-out EF and how it was generally lost in the OF (ie: the ablutions, no purifying on the credence table without a corporal, communion patent always used, etc.)
 
Sometimes I go to a diocesan TLM about 30 mins from my house when I’m up there already and don’t want to drive down to my own parish. I’ve also visited TLMs in the San Francisco Bay Area when visiting my brother in an attempt to find my church home away from home.
 
I am going to make it my new year’s resolution to attend Latin Mass.
 
There are two current Latin Missals. The one of 1962 (Extraordinary Form) and 1970 (Ordinary Form). Because the only Latin Masses I’ve ever attended have been in the Ordinary Form, both recited and in Gregorian chant. At least that I can remember, as I was born in 1958.

What I’m saying is that “the Latin Mass” is a misnomer if you are referring to the Extraordinary Form (Tridentine Mass). The official language of the current Mass remains Latin even though now there are approved vernacular translations.
 
There is nothing wrong with visiting different Latin Mass (i.e., TLM/EF) parishes, but keep in mind — and I know you do — that the Mass is the Mass wherever you go, and one of the “big ideas” of the TLM is that the Mass is the same everywhere, and the personality of the priest is of no importance. There are better homilists than others, but the homily is not at the essence of the Mass — in fact, technically speaking, it is not part of the Mass, it is an interruption to the Mass. And there is the difference between the various High Masses and Low Mass, but again, the Mass is the Mass. Very few traditionalist Catholics seek out a Mass because “Father X” is celebrating it, or even because it is at “St X” Church. Generally speaking, TLM adherents are just happy to have the Latin Mass, and anything else is fairly unimportant. I have assisted at the TLM in a warehouse, a fire station, and a hotel, and was glad to be there.
 
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Ive been wanting to explore other parishes in my county and been searching up other parishes in my state that offer it. It’s just so beautiful, I’m feeling like a treasure explorer or something haha.
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If you’re ever in the Baltimore area, be sure to visit my parish, the National Shrine of St. Alphonsus Liguori. Beautiful, beautiful old Church!

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If you’re ever in the Baltimore area, be sure to visit my parish, the National Shrine of St. Alphonsus Liguori. Beautiful, beautiful old Church!
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That it indeed is. I have been there for the TLM and it is very majestic. Not the best neighborhood, exercise some caution, but the church was there long before the neighborhood deteriorated.
 
I don’t know where you live, but if anyone here is every in the Houston, TX area - I am going to advertise a bit - there are at least three parishes that I know of which offer the Traditional Latin Mass:

St. Theresa Catholic Church (Sugar Land, TX)
Annunciation Catholic Church (Houston, TX)
Regina Caeli Catholic Church (a personal parish of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston organized precisely for the purpose of offering the TLM, located in north Houston, TX)

I have been to the low TLM at Regina Caeli and the sung TLM at Annunciation, which also offers a beautiful OF in Latin. I have also been to an OF at St. Theresa, respectably sung.

(As for my regular parish, I attend the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.)
 
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