What is your favorite thing about the traditional Latin Mass?

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Please share your favorite things about the traditional Latin Mass.
 
My favorite thing is the atmosphere. There is something at the Latin Mas that could be found in the Novus Ordo, although I have never found it. I have only encountered it in the TLM. That thing is: SILENCE, before and after mass. And no one carries on conversations during mass. People are there to worship and pray.
 
Brian Crane:
My favorite thing is the atmosphere. There is something at the Latin Mas that could be found in the Novus Ordo, although I have never found it. I have only encountered it in the TLM. That thing is: SILENCE, before and after mass. And no one carries on conversations during mass. People are there to worship and pray.
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So true! Although, I have to give a shameless plug for the best Catholic parish in America: St Martin of Tours in downtown Louisville, KY is GREAT!. Their N.O. Mass is amazingly reverent: 75% of music is gregorian chant (agnus dei, gloria, etc), absolutely beautiful architecture (still have communion rails!), the new altar is almost more beautiful than the high altar!

Anyway, at their N.O. Mass, there is silence before and after. I can’t say enough good things about this parish. And they offer the TLM 5 times a week! They’re open 24/7 with 24/7 Adoration.

OK, I’m done hijacking this thread. Sorry Anima!

To answer the question, my favorite part of the TLM is kneeling to receive Our Lord in Holy Communion. It feels so wrong to stand and stick out your hands like you’re OWED the Host or something. I always receive on the tongue at N.O. but even that doesn’t feel reverent enough.
 
**All of the above also I never once felt like I was being choreographed. It is a shame that the New Mass is been subjected to abuse and **misinterpretation for it too can be sacred.
 
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So true! Although, I have to give a shameless plug for the best Catholic parish in America: St Martin of Tours in downtown Louisville, KY is GREAT!. Their N.O. Mass is amazingly reverent: 75% of music is gregorian chant (agnus dei, gloria, etc), absolutely beautiful architecture (still have communion rails!), the new altar is almost more beautiful than the high altar!

Anyway, at their N.O. Mass, there is silence before and after. I can’t say enough good things about this parish. And they offer the TLM 5 times a week! They’re open 24/7 with 24/7 Adoration.

OK, I’m done hijacking this thread. Sorry Anima!

To answer the question, my favorite part of the TLM is kneeling to receive Our Lord in Holy Communion. It feels so wrong to stand and stick out your hands like you’re OWED the Host or something. I always receive on the tongue at N.O. but even that doesn’t feel reverent enough.
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Sounds like a great church, I’d love to visit it sometime.
 
Anima Christi:
Please share your favorite things about the traditional Latin Mass.
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Hmm . . .

Well, for starters it’s good to attend a Mass you know is valid . . .

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Sacramentalist:
Hmm . . .

Well, for starters it’s good to attend a Mass you know is valid . . .

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Ouch! Are you implying that the Novus Ordo, current rite of the Mass used in the Church, may be invalid??
 
I have to go with all of the above plus at the TLM I can really concentrate on worshiping God. I pray the Mass and watch the priest, but at the same time I think, feel that I am really concentrating on the miracle that is occurring on the altar. I can read and watch TV, but neither real well at the same time, but during a TLM mass it seems easy to concentrate on reading my missal and worshiping God.
 
Oh, all of the above, and also the prayers at the foot of the altar (the real Confiteor) and the Last Gospel, to say nothing of the real Roman Canon. 🙂

Also: Although our two priests who are allowed to say the Tridentine Mass are excellent homilists, and although I’m the first one to promote all excellent homilists, it is true that the priest in TLM is not a “star” or an MC hovering over a get-together. 🙂

Also (and very important): The continuity of the OT sacrifices and this re-presentation of Our Lord’s sacrifice is, of course, far more observable in the Tridentine, than in the NO, which, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, is deliberately designed to placate those for whom no sacrifice should take place. 🙂

God bless,

Anna
 
Anima Christi:
Ouch! Are you implying that the Novus Ordo, current rite of the Mass used in the Church, may be invalid??
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I was joshin’.

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Definitely the atmosphere for me. I always come out of TLM with such a blanket of peace…

Great thread, by the way.
 
Brian Crane:
My favorite thing is the atmosphere. There is something at the Latin Mas that could be found in the Novus Ordo, although I have never found it. I have only encountered it in the TLM. That thing is: SILENCE, before and after mass. And no one carries on conversations during mass. People are there to worship and pray.
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The worshipful silence during the canon, which is so painfully absent from the new Mass, is my favorite part.
 
All of the above

plus…

Seeng young families with lots of kids where they all pay attention. I saw a family come in with 7 kids, and the mother was pregnant- all those kids- even the toddler- were quiet. When the children (one of them was an altar boy) were going to confession, two of the kids were playing and the mother scolded them and said “you’re supposed to be examining your consciences”- like you ever hear that. The woman was in her late 20’s or so. I wonder what the fruits of the Traditional Latin Mass will be like, once these kids have grown up, become priests or started families of their own.
 
Anna Elizabeth:
Oh, all of the above, and also the prayers at the foot of the altar (the real Confiteor) and the Last Gospel, to say nothing of the real Roman Canon. 🙂

Also: Although our two priests who are allowed to say the Tridentine Mass are excellent homilists, and although I’m the first one to promote all excellent homilists, it is true that the priest in TLM is not a “star” or an MC hovering over a get-together. 🙂

Also (and very important): The continuity of the OT sacrifices and this re-presentation of Our Lord’s sacrifice is, of course, far more observable in the Tridentine, than in the NO, which, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, is deliberately designed to placate those for whom no sacrifice should take place. 🙂

God bless,

Anna
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I also love the prayers at the foot of the altar and think if there is any part of the TLM that should have been kept in the Novus Ordo, it is this. For me, the most dramatic part of the Mass is the elevation of the Host and the Chalice. I always have that image in my head of Jesus hanging on the cross, supported by the Father, while the blood streams from his body into the chalice the priest is holding up. Anyone know what I’m referring to? Of course, the priest elevates the Host and chalice in Novus Ordo masses, but it’s so much harder to see that he is offering the sacrifice to God when it appears he is offering it to us.
I will go to the altar of God, who gives joy to my youth!
 
I chose reverence and atmosphere, because they are broader categories that encompass alot. However, kneeling for communion before the throne of grace to become part of the Body of Christ is simply an awesome experience. I will always remember my first time.

I prefer the TLM most of all because of the extremes it imparts to my soul. As I pray it, I feel squashed like a bug out of a sense of sin. Yes, sin is still there and taught by the church.

But, by communion I am elevated and focused on grace to the highest heights. I envision myself in heaven before the throne as the sacrifice is being presented with all the saints and heavenly hosts singing praises.

I don’t sense sin or grace to the same extent at the N.O. masses I have attended.

P.S. — I am a new Catholic convert.
 
Vastly superior and fuller expression of Catholic truth in every detail.
 
The worshipful silence during the canon, which is so painfully absent from the new Mass, is my favorite part.
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Same for me Doc.
That awesome silence. Punctuated only by the sound of the bell.
I am A convert, After suffering through abuses for my first year. A Priest friend directed me to the TLM.
I found exactly what I was looking for when I converted.
Theocentricity, Continuity with all of the saints and Faithful who have gone before us.
The Solemn gestures, The way the Mass unfolds in A Timeless rhythm. The eternal cadence of every action,movement.and gesture.
I particularly love kneeling to recieve our Lord. and then at the end. Our final act of Faith in the Divinity of Christ. The beautiful “Last Gospel”
 
Latin Mass reminds me of my youth, it was part of my childhood.

It was shelved in February 1965 , over 40 years ago, but I still remember it.
 
I picked kneeling to receive our Lord in communion. That was the hardest thing for me when converting from Episcopal to Catholic. It just made no sense to me that the Episcopal church showed more reverence than the Catholic Church. I was completely shocked the first time I went to a Catholic Church. Now I go to TLM(Indult) and I LOVE it!!! I don’t have to worry about hand shaking/holding(I’m shy & besides it distracts me). I get to kneel for communion, I get to hear gregorian chant, I get prayerful silence, & the people dress decently(and by that I mean modestly & jeans/shorts free).
 
I love reciting the Act of Contrition, then recieving the absolution of venial sins right before recieving holy communion.

Also - their is something about “Lord I am not worthy that thou shalt come under my roof, only say the words and my soul shall be healed” that I find completely comforting.

During the consecration of the body and blood of Christ - it almost seems as if the world stops for that moment.
 
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