Which Term Do You Use When You Speak of The Latin Mass?

[Deacon_Ed_B]

I tend to use “The Latin Mass” when I speak of The Latin Mass.

I then tend to use “the English-language Mass” when speaking of the Novus Ordo, because if I were to use “the English Mass” it makes me wonder if someone might confuse English with Anglican.

Silly maybe, but that’s just how my brain works.

~~ the phoenix

So what do you mean by ordinary?
Deacon Ed B

 

[Conservative]

One category was left out of the poll - “Tridentine Latin Mass”.
Much depends on who you’re speaking to because if you say “Tridentine”, you’d be surprised how many people might not know what you’re talking about. When I was educated about the changes, I think it was only then that the word “Tridentine” became prevalent in my vocabulary. I sometimes clarify it by saying the ‘Latin Mass before the changes’ in those cases where people won’t know what Tridentine means.
Here, and within traditionalist circles, I know the word “Tridentine” would suffice.

 

[laudamus_te]

It depends who I am speaking with. It is common for Traditionalists, who are speaking to one another, to refer to it as “the Mass”. But if I am speaking to someone who is not Traditional, I will refer to it as the Traditional Mass, or “true Mass” if I am trying to get their goat.

Yes, for this reason I didn’t vote. Personally, I like “The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass” best.

 

[latinmasslover]

It depends on who I’m talking to and the context…I’ll say usually the *Holy *Mass or the Mass of the Saints.

 

[latinmasslover]

So what do you mean by ordinary?
Deacon Ed B

Ordinary:
Average, mediorcre, inferior, normal, second-rate, indifferent, and my personal fave: ugly

That’s probably what was meant, at least that’s what comes to *my *mind (referring to the Rite, not the Mass itself, of course).

 

[tee_eff_em]

Ordinary:
Average, mediorcre, inferior, normal, second-rate, indifferent, and my personal fave: ugly

That’s probably what was meant, at least that’s what comes to *my *mind (referring to the Rite, not the Mass itself, of course).

You are entitled to your opinion of course, but that is pretty harsh :nope: in my opinion.

:twocents:
tee

 

[Deacon_Ed_B]

Ordinary:
***Average, mediorcre, inferior, normal, second-rate, indifferent, and my personal fave: ugly

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That’s probably what was meant, at least that’s what comes to *my *mind (referring to the Rite, not the Mass itself, of course).

I wonder how that makes you feel about*** “ORDINARY TIME”*** as a season of the liturgical year?
Prayers & blessings
Deacon Ed B

 

[tee_eff_em]

[Followup]

(referring to the Rite, not the Mass itself, of course).

I’m not sure how you distinguish between the two?

tee

 

[Deacon_Ed_B]

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That’s probably what was meant, at least that’s what comes to *my *mind (referring to the Rite, not the Mass itself, of course).

Since the mass is celebrated according to a RITE, pray tell, how do you separate the two?
Prayers & Blessings
Deacon Ed B

 

[Miles_Mariae]

Just a guess, but latinmasslover probably means something more along the lines of “usage”. One Rite, two usages, and he is criticizing one particular usage.

Alright, that was pretty easy to clear up.

 

[Deacon_Ed_B]

Alright, that was pretty easy to clear up.

Sounds good to me
Prayers & Blessings
Deacon Ed B

 

[HashemEchad]

I use “Tridentine Latin Mass” so people know I don’t mean the NO in Latin.

I also use that term so that people understand that the NO is not the “old Mass” in Latin; the form is entirely different.

 

[costruire]

I usually call it the Tridentine Mass, mostly because I heard it called that by others when I first learned what it was. Anything else sounds funny to me.

 

[Aragorn1]

Catch-phrases like “the Mass of all time” and “the true Mass” and “the Mass of the saints” seem to imply things that are not true. Other saints have celebrated the Mass according to different liturgies; the EF has not been around ever since the time of Christ (and thus does not merit the title “Mass of all time”); and to speak of it as “the true Mass” in a tone that implies other forms of the Mass are not equally true is condescending as well as incorrect.

That’s why I prefer to call it “the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Missal”.

It’s the terminology the Catholic Church has adopted.

 

[Aragorn1]

Pax et Caritas;3542107:

It depends who I am speaking with. It is common for Traditionalists, who are speaking to one another, to refer to it as “the Mass”. But if I am speaking to someone who is not Traditional, I will refer to it as the Traditional Mass, or “true Mass” if I am trying to get their goat.

And this is from “Pax et Caritas”! LOL.

Good one!

 

[m134e5]

I usually refer to it as “the old Latin Mass”, or “the Latin Mass” for short. Sometimes I call it the Traditional Latin Mass…but that takes a bit longer to say. Most people I talk to don’t know what “Tridentine means”, and they wouldn’t be able to distinguish a Novus Ordo said in Latin and ad orientem from a Tridentine Mass and wouldn’t understand if I referred to it as “Latin Mass” or Traditional Latin Mass".

 

[latinmasslover]

I wonder how that makes you feel about*** “ORDINARY TIME”*** as a season of the liturgical year?
Prayers & blessings
Deacon Ed B

Simple, I follow the Old Calendar which doesn’t have “ordinary time.”

 

[latinmasslover]

Just a guess, but latinmasslover probably means something more along the lines of “usage”. One Rite, two usages, and he is criticizing one particular usage.

Alright, that was pretty easy to clear up.

Thanks, but I’m a She.

 

[Marsha_Adams]

Ordinary:
Average, mediorcre, inferior, normal, second-rate, indifferent, and my personal fave: ugly

That’s probably what was meant, at least that’s what comes to *my *mind (referring to the Rite, not the Mass itself, of course).

Obedience given to the Bishop is referred to as obedience to the ordinary. Liturgical calendar outside of Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter is referred to as ordinary time.

I do not think that you really want to refer to either your bishop or to certain liturgical time as being inferior, indifferent or ugly.

 

[Deacon_Ed_B]

Simple, I follow the Old Calendar which doesn’t have “ordinary time.”

So you attend only the Latin Mass??? Never the Novus Ordo???
Prayers & Blessings
Deacocn Ed B