You know you're a Traditional Catholic when

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Theophorus said:
When you are toying with calling your dog ‘anathema’ so you can utter the phrase ‘anathema sit’ in public and get away with it:)
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Wow! I live this. Almost makes me want to go out and adopt a litter of puppies. I can imagine going through my day yelling at them by name: “Sit, Godless Pagan!” “Stop barking, Schismatic Fool!” “Heel, Impenitent Heretic!” “No, no, bad dog, Mortal Sinner!”
 
Theophorus said:
When you are toying with calling your dog ‘anathema’ so you can utter the phrase ‘anathema sit’ in public and get away with it:)
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I had to look this one up: “anathema sit” = “let him be anathema.”. That’s funny! 🙂
 
You know you’re a traditional Catholic when you hear the words “May the Force Be With You” and you immediately respond “And also with you.” 😃
 
I realize that there is tension between traditionalists and non-traditionalists–we’ve come to different conclusions about some important issues.

Still, with regard to some of the comments, the title of this thread is “You know you’re a Traditional Catholic when…” It is a take-off from a Foxworthy running joke: “You MIGHT be a redneck if…”

So, perhaps the thread should have used Foxworthy’s formulation for clarity, but it is clear enough to me that no absolutism was implied. The thread was NOT entitled, “You know that you are NOT a Ordinary Form (OF) Catholic if…”

It is certainly true that many OF Catholics do love tradition! It is also true that some traditionalists do not realize that…but most do.

Still, it ought not to bring protests when common traditional practices are used as humorous illustrations–even if there are some non-traditionalists who do such things as well. So, yes, some non-traditionalists ask priests over for supper, but it is more traditional Catholicism that causes the priest to feel a greater obligation to go. But again, this is not an universal and absolute claim.

In my diocese, you might be a traditionalists if you always go to mass Sunday afternoon (12:30 pm or 1:30 pm)–because that is the only time the Extraordinary Form (EF) is offered.

You might be a traditionalist if you keep changing parishes, because the Bishop is indifferent to any continuity of community–suddenly transferring priests capable of doing the ER without replacement with another.

You might be a traditionalist if you read in the Sunday bulletin that this or that will be offered after every mass, but it never is at your mass.

You might be a traditionalist if you secretly hope for a SSPX parish to be formed in your diocese, because that is the only way your Bishop will ever approve an EF parish–and then he will approve it instantly and without obstacles.

You might be a traditionalist if you are dumbstruck by the opposition to the minor new revisions to the OF: and wonder if they can even imagine the incredible change that Catholics were forced to go through in the 1960/1970’s.

You might be a traditionalist if you think that “post hoc ergo propter hoc” translates (using fluid ICEL principles) into “I refuse to learn from experience.” 🙂 The last refuge of the non-traditionalist intellectual hiding from reality. 🙂
 
SBroxson said:
You might be a traditionalist if you think that “post hoc ergo propter hoc” translates (using fluid ICEL principles) into “I refuse to learn from experience.” 🙂 The last refuge of the non-traditionalist intellectual hiding from reality. 🙂
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Ah, good old “post hoc ergo propter hoc”…
Michael Davies gave the example of the CEO of a major corporation instituting a major reform after which sales drop by 70% who keeps insisting they will not be dissuaded from the path they have chosen.
 
Seamus_L said:
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                   When you say the rosary while driving, walking down forest trails, in your backyard etc.
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LOL…was thinking this! I do this all the time!

Here’s one more:

…when you go to a non-catholic friends house for a get together and they say a prayer before the meal and you are the only one in the room that makes the sign of the cross and everyone stares at you. LOL
 
lndknwls said:
You know you’re a traditional Catholic when you hear the words “May the Force Be With You” and you immediately respond “And also with you.” 😃
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I laughed out loud when I read this…that actually pops in my head every time I hear that on Star Wars! lol
 
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This thread post is an oxymoron. If you’re not a “Traditional Catholic” you’re not really Catholic. If someone claims to be Catholic but not Traditional he is something other than Catholic. No debate.
 
Someone on the first page of this thread posted they make the sign of the Cross when an
ambulance passes. We do that too, and when a cemetary appears next to the road.
That was a great idea also posted on the first page to have a bottle of Holy Water inside
one’s First Aid kit. Great!
 
  • when you bow your head every time you hear “Jesus” during Mass…
  • when you’re looking foward to responding “And with your spirit” this coming Advent
  • when you need a fan and immediately look in your purse for last Sunday’s bulletin
  • when your Act of Contrition is the “O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee…”
 
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quiet52 said:
  • when you bow your head every time you hear “Jesus” during Mass…
  • when you’re looking foward to responding “And with your spirit” this coming Advent
  • when you need a fan and immediately look in your purse for last Sunday’s bulletin
  • when your Act of Contrition is the “O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee…”
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I thought I was the only one who still used that Act of Contrition! :eek: 🙂
 
MarysGirls said:
I thought I was the only one who still used that Act of Contrition! :eek: 🙂
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“O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of heaven, and the pains of hell; but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, Who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace to confess my sins, to do penance and to amend my life. Amen.”

I did not know there was others.
 
and this one

O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee and I detest all my sins because of Thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more and avoid the near occasions of sin. Amen.
 
**:hey_bud: You know you’re a Traditionalist Catholic when you’re a practicing Catholic. **
 
oneGODoneCHURCH said:
“O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of heaven, and the pains of hell; but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, Who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace to confess my sins, to do penance and to amend my life. Amen.”

I did not know there was others.
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This is the only one I know. 👍
 
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