Laszlo seems to often indirectly accuse people of pride or vanity when they say they want to have the Traditional Mass and sacraments. Personally I have never met a person for whom that is the case.
Are you implying that the Ordinary Form of the Sacraments and Divine Liturgy do not confer sanctifying grace?
She has skill to serve as catechist, nursery help and Extraordinaru Eucharistic minister. Thls later is nonexistent at the FSSP, I sincerly hope that the FSSP requires different qualification for a catechist that a New form parish, and I am afraid that the FSSP usually has no resources (room staff, insurance) for keeping nursery.
If that is all that I can do to help while I am there, I will happily do it. All I want to do is serve God, no matter the job or chore I am given.
No. I am implying that I am unlikely to remain in the state of grace if I don’t have access to a traditional parish.
As far as I know, only Penance and Baptism confer (as opposed to, increase) sanctifying grace. What is the difference between the “Ordinary” or “Superordinary” Form of either?
I would suggest choosing what is best for your spiritual life. If your soul craves to be at the FSSP parish - that could mean something. You could get involved there too
you don’t need to argue your choice. Just simply say, you feel drawn to that spirituality. If you find it easier to pray at the Latin Mass and if that’s what you prefer, that doesn’t mean you’re against your current parish, or critical of it, or that you’re rejecting the NO or your priest. Is there a way to maybe discuss this with the FSSP priest? it’s a great place to grow spiritually.The forms are Ordinary and Extraordinary, not Superordinary.
The spiritual life does not work quite that way. God does not call us from what is good to something else for no apparent reason. God certainly does not have a preference for one form of the mass over another. That would be like saying that God prefers the Roman Church over the Chaldean Church.
If you’re searching to develop your relationship with Christ and your charity toward neighbor, you’re not hurting Father. He may miss you if you leave. He IS human.
LOL, I know how you feel. My last RC parish, the priest knows me. Although we don’t have a deep and long time relationship with him, he calls me all the time when he has computer problems. The thing is, I’ve moved to a Ukrainian parish months ago. I don’t know if he has noticed but he acts like I am still a parishioner. And truthfully I don’t have the guts to tell him.
I understand that this is a difficult situation for you. Though Father has done a lot for your family, you, in turn, have also done a lot for your parish, too. You are obviously a very giving and caring person, and I would guess that Father will understand that it’s a difficult decision for you when you explain it to him.
I am so excited and honestly surprised when I had my appointment with the priest at my old parish of his response. He told me that if the Holy Spirit is pulling me so strongly to the FSSP parish I needed to follow that urge, no questions asked. He did tell me that the doors of my old parish are always open and a hug will always await me and my husband.Considering that the only “Extraordinary Eucharistic Ministers” in either form would be laicized priests, why would you ask that of anyone?
You could have worded this differently. This makes it sound as if women have no role in the Church once they join an FSSP parish. That’s not true. They’re not involved in the sancturary during the liturgy. There is no ban on using women to take communion to the sick, to run ministries for youth, couples and families, to do spiritual direction, retreat work, sacramental preparation, pastoral counseling, administration or any of the other functions that women now occupy in the Church. The Church’s Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity still applies in FSSP run parishes. None of these other ministries require ordination or that one be male. They can even teach at the FSSP seminary if they have the proper academic credentials.
Never mind. Found my answer.
There are also grottos and shrines as well. But you probably knew that.
Chapels can be large or small and can be freestanding or part of a building (like a day chapel in a church) and may be associated witha seminary, hospital, shrine, school,monastary etc. They are not the same as a parish church. The FSSP parishes serve the Diocese they are in, I believe, and are under the Bishop of that Diocese. They are listed as a Diocesean parish in my Diocese and their building is a church, not a chapel.