Why do you like the Latin mass?

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It’s capable yes, but I’ve not experienced it at the parishes I’ve been to. I’ve also experienced parishes where the homilies do nothing to strengthen faith or knowledge of Catholicism and that does a huge injustice. The music at the local OF parish is contemporary, not something I feel I can pray with.
Yes, of course there are large families at the OF, there are many, many more at the EF parish so I feel less like a fertile freak. Are the ones attending the EF more fertile than those attending OF? I don’t know. There are couples with no children who attend the EF.
I wasn’t defining your Catholicism. I have nothing but sympathy for infertile couples.
 
The priest keeps his fingers pinched together in order to avoid dropping any particles of the Eucharist anywhere he doesn’t intend them to go.
 
IrishCoffee said:
It’s capable yes, but I’ve not experienced it at the parishes I’ve been to. I’ve also experienced parishes where the homilies do nothing to strengthen faith or knowledge of Catholicism and that does a huge injustice. The music at the local OF parish is contemporary, not something I feel I can pray with.
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Just because you haven’t experienced those things doesn’t make it inherently worse. I mean, a few years ago I wrote about when I attended the Extraordinary Form (it is an older post, please pardon my writing style), and needless to say - there was many negative experiences about my visit there. But I don’t say that the Extraordinary Form is inherently worse due to those experiences.
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Yes, of course there are large families at the OF, there are many, many more at the EF parish so I feel less like a fertile freak. Are the ones attending the EF more fertile than those attending OF? I don’t know. There are couples with no children who attend the EF.
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Those couples who attend the EF with no kids very well could feel like freaks themselves. I’ve personally have experienced judgement from self-styled “traditional Catholics” due to having a single six year old child.
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I wasn’t defining your Catholicism. I have nothing but sympathy for infertile couples.
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You say this, and I thank you for your sympathy. And generally after I mention my wife and I have been having struggles with conceiving a child, people express sympathies. Before they do, however, they judge. And judge harshly.

At my parish, there is a specific woman who one would describe as a “traditionalist” in many respects. She has a habit of occasionally asking if people were pregnant, including myself and my wife - because in our case, apparently being a practicing Catholic while being married and only having one child isn’t “normal”. One day, she asked this question to me once again. My response; “we just had a miscarriage three weeks ago”. Her response?

“Oh. I’m sure next time it will work out!”

No pause after the “oh” or anything, she just said what she said, and I walked away before I used harsh language. I’ll leave it to you to decide if that was appropriate or not. That is the life of having a single child (or no children) within certain Catholic circles, though.
 
IrishCoffee said:
It’s capable yes, but I’ve not experienced it at the parishes I’ve been to.
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I have. Not everywhere, but in enough places to be notable. I sing in a Gregorian schola, and we rotate around different parishes. Most do a decent OF Mass. A very small number do not. Our source of inspiration and formation is a local Benedictine abbey that does as reverent an OF Mass as you’ll find anywhere, in Gregorian chant and French plainchant
 
I don’t get as much out of an OF as I do the EF. I have a preference to the EF. That doesn’t mean I hate the OF and that it is worse. There are other people who feel the opposite and love the OF.

Everyone is judged because people suck! If you have too many kids, not enough kids… It would be better if people just minded their own business but they don’t.
 
Way cool! It helps to have a music director who likes chant. Ours prefers the contemporary stuff so that’s what is done.
 
the sheer beauty and mystery of it. I am not even Catholic and I love watching it on IMASS and following it with an old missal. I have to check the internet to figure out which day I’m on. I don’t get to watch it every day. You should check out the app!
 
You only “get out” of any Mass, what you “put in”.
 
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if I may ask, what are you? how did you find out about the Extraordinary Form?
 
I’m a Seventh Day Adventist. My parents are Catholic. I discovered my Dad’s missal and started looking at it, was fascinated with it but discovered somewhat of a schism between old and new order. Looked it up on the internet and when I saw the Latin version I was pretty amazed. Now I like to find old missals. I have become somewhat enamored with Francis X Lasance’s prayer books and missal. I wish I could afford a new one! We just don’t see eye to eye when it comes to your doctrines. For a long time I accepted things because the church told me that’s what the Bible means and they were wrong. There is no escape hatch called the Rapture before it gets really bad, really really bad like seven years worth.But I found a poster on this site who is really dedicated to helping me understand where you are coming from. He even wrote a couple books. I found one of them on Amazon and he is a catechist. I’ve also rounded up some other really good books by Keating and Gibbons. There is this really cool app called IMASS and another one called Laudate. These are really great tools! and then this website that is absolutely phenomenal called www.sanctamissa.org. Oh and Max there are these You Tube videos that show you and explain everything that the priest and the server are doing at the alter so when you follow the mass you aren’t scratching your head. It is really quite amazing especially since I never had any of your training!
So that’s it in a nutshell. Oh, when I was a kid, I was raised in a Baptist church until my mom died. At that point my Dad just wasn’t aware of the importance of church attendance. So Sunday services kind of fell by the wayside. Later on in life He became a Catholic about the time I began attending the Seventh Day Adventist Church. He wanted his marriage to my stepmother to be acknowledged as valid. When they got married the church would not consider it valid because he was protestant and my stepmother was Catholic. Wow that soured things. And then when the priest told them he would give them permission to have my little sister christened oh boy, he was really mad. I can not for the life of me understand him converting but he did and that little missal caught my attention and here I am.
 
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