Why I Love the Extraordinary Form of the Mass

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yankeesouth said:
The People of God need to see priests and deacons behave in a way that is full of reverence and dignity, in order to help them to penetrate invisible things without unnecessary words or explanations.”
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Priests and deacons can “behave in a way that is full of reverence and dignity, in order to help them to penetrate invisible things without unnecessary words or explanations”, irrespective of the of the form of Mass they are celebrating or concelebrating.

It’s totally absurd to believe that one approved form of the Mass is intrinsically more reverent or more dignified than another approved form.
 
Mozalbete said:
In almost every single aspect of the extraordinary form you can observe more reverence towards God.
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This is also true of the OF Mass.
Mozalbete said:
You can behave in a way that is full of reverence and dignity in the non-extraordinary form, yes, by turning it into the extraordinary form.
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No. The priest can do so by following the rubrics of the OF Mass.
Mozalbete said:
The “both are valid, so both of them are exactly the same thing!” nonsense is saddening.
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They are both far more than “valid” (presuming the were correctly celebrated.) The OF and EF Masses (along with all of the approved Eastern Catholic sacrificial liturgies) produce the exact same amount of grace, so long as they are celebrated per the rubrics set by the Church. To suggest one liturgy is intrinsically more reverent, dignified or full of grace is worse than sad. It’s irrational and just plain ridiculous.

Further, those that continually try to sell the EF Mass as being intrinsically more reverent, dignified or full of grace, are doing something very bad – be it through ignorance or agenda.
 
I think of the EF as the Mass of the “head” and the OF Mass as the Mass of the “heart”. I do enjoy the EF Mass once in awhile, for the beautiful music, if it is a High Mass and for the quiet solitude, if it is a low Mass. But,I prefer the OF, where I can close my eyes and let the voice of the priest and the Words of Christ totally permeate my whole being. I do not have to read anything to understand every single word. Say what you want, but after 12 years of Catholic school with Mass in Latin, I never truly understood the Mass. And I cannot be the only one.
 
I don’t think one of the forms is more reverent than the other intrinsically when they are done right. The last part is key though. I think at the moment the OF needs some work. To be fair, the work that needs to be done doesn’t have much to do with the rubrics (maybe a few here and there but overall…). It has more to do with externals. The EF has been around longer to sift through what works and what doesn’t. The OF will get there. It hasn’t even been around for half a century yet and it had to go through some rough times at the end of the Council.

But when you but the Mass of EWTN or those of the St. John Cantius Society next to the EF, they both are fully reverent.
 
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