Why do you love the TLM?

[strugglingalong]

This whole mindset just baffles me. If I go to Mass, it’s to be a part of Mass. Even the TLM crowd refers to it as “assisting at Mass”. So, why would I go to Mass, and then tune out the Mass as background “noise” while I pray something else?

It would be like going to a ball game and listening to music on my transistor radio while I was there.

It is illogical at best, and irrational at worst.

No, you’re misunderstanding. The problem is the TLM is more contemplative. You don’t have competing noise of the priest and the people. There is more silence. The chant is more conducive to pray that, say, On Eagles Wings. Plus there is not a priest staring back at you or people trying to hold your hand for the Our Father. All of those things combined make it more conducive to pray and more contemplative. The Mass isn’t background noise. The TLM prayers and actions just aren’t as distracting and “in your face.”

Pax Christi tecum.

 

[strugglingalong]

Thread is about loving the EF (as you started lecturing me), in the traditional forum. Not about loving the OF. Not about how “obedient” the people who accepted the OF in the 1960s and 1970s were.

The thing is, though, that true obedience is obedience to the Church and the Faith and when something not so good is required, true obedience requires us, as Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand has said, to faithfully protest with full charity and respect to the Pope.

Pax Christi tecum.

 

[SnorterLuster]

The TLM is my preference because I unite with the Priest & laity in worship of and to God. I am barely conscious of the people around me as I pray the Mass in union with them. Our souls are united in one prayer (the Mass). Our gaze, our posture, our minds are all directed by the Liturgy to the Sacrifice occurring on the Altar. When the Mass of the Faithful begins, our concentration on the Sacrifice is uninterrupted by changes in posture, hugs or handshakes.

 

[Dai_Yoshida]

I love the TLM mainly because I see far fewer liturgical abuses.

The Holy Father hit it right on the nail. There is not much difference between the OF and the EF if OF is conducted properly.

I’m so tired of going to Mass where I have to make sure the “ad-libbing” priest consecrate the host properly and wondering, “Is this Mass licit?” I’m tired of extraordinary ministers making it as difficult as possible to receive communion on the tongue. I’m tired of people reaching over to shake my hand right through the Agnus Dei. I’m tired of gender neutral hymns and readings.

I’m all for “participation”, but I think there is a difference between “participating” and ignoring our Lord at the alter.