What form of the Roman Rite do you prefer? (Poll)

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Adamek said:
Most Catholics have no access to the Tridentine mass and have never experienced it.
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Yes, unfortunately. I, myself, have my closest Sunday mass 8 hours driving from me. Even so, I try to go each month once. But, almost everyone could read about and look at videos at youtube. It is enought to realize what they are missing.
 
I grew up with the Ordinary Form and served it daily for nearly 10 years straight. I’ve found that the bulk of folks who have problems with the Ordinary Form don’t have problems with the form itself so much as with the abuse of the form and the banal music that is permitted. But, if one can find a reverent Ordinary Form with traditional music (or, preferably, Gregorian Chant), then most of the issues really disappear.

Anyhow, I’m Maronite now, and I prefer the Maronite Qurbono or the Byzantine Divine Liturgy over either the Ordinary or Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite.
 
Phillip_Rolfes said:
Anyhow, I’m Maronite now, and I prefer the Maronite Qurbono or the Byzantine Divine Liturgy over either the Ordinary or Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite.
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Interesting. Other than the differences in the form of the rituals, what was the theological reason for your switching to Maronite?
 
Send me a PM and we can talk about it. I don’t want to derail the thread. 😁
 
Pope St. Paul VI established a minimum of Latin responses that were supposed to be retained in the Ordinary Form. Sadly that minimum is largely ignored.

I’ve been to a number of OF parishes where the Communion Rail has either never fallen out of use, or was later re-installed and put to use once more. It’s a beautiful thing to see (in the Roman Rite).

I’ve also been to parishes where celebrating Mass ad orientem was once again re-established. Again, it’s a beautiful thing to see.

Much of my personal issue with the OF revolves simply around the poor choice in music. But I recognize that that’s not a problem with the form itself, so much as with the pastor and the music ministers.
 
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Pointless poll.
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Very polite comment. Care to explain?
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You’re on a Traditional Catholicism message board. The results won’t exactly be a surprise.
 
My thought exactly. This place is not exactly representative of anything, and those that answer a poll her, less so. The only thing it will represent is a percentage of people who bothered or cared to click on this poll.
 
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I grew up with the Ordinary Form and served it daily for nearly 10 years straight. I’ve found that the bulk of folks who have problems with the Ordinary Form don’t have problems with the form itself so much as with the abuse of the form and the banal music that is permitted. But, if one can find a reverent Ordinary Form with traditional music (or, preferably, Gregorian Chant), then most of the issues really disappear.
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This is kind of my thoughts on it as well. Music that’s sounds like “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” does nothing to inspire me or help turn my mind to God. Then there’s a parish I went to before I moved that had incorporated a bass guitar. The bass was turned up high enough that I left with a splitting headache. Not conducive to a positive Mass experience.

For the record, I love the bass. Just not in Mass.
 
I myself have it like this:

Ad Orientem OF > EF > Novus Ordo OF

So right now I really am unsure how to answer this thread, because Ad Orientem OF is not available near me at all and neither is it what people imagine when they hear “OF”.
 
Too few choices!

'3. Whatever is offered wherever I happen to be"

Jesus Christ is bigger than His mode of arrival, walking or riding a donkey. The sacrifice of the mass is bigger than the precise manner it is offered in.
 
Yes, I would choose the EF over a banal OF, but I will generally choose a reverent, beautiful OF over the EF.
 
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