Young Catholics Causing Rebirth of Tridentine Mass

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To comment on what the title of the thread states, I think there IS a growing segment of youths that love the Tridentine Mass.

We live in an age where most “young people” who are religious at all tend to be more traditional and conservative than their more liberal/progressive peers. Most young people who identify as “liberal/progressive” just don’t go to church. The small percentage of young people who are religious at all would likely be more hard-core believers. I don’t think there are too many lukewarm Catholics under the age of 40. They’re either in or out… just my unscientific observations.

Of interest here… a priest friend of mine (in his very early 40s) offers a Tridentine Mass weekly in Cambridge, Massachusetts that is very well attended by students of Harvard and MIT.

My own opinion is that the only changes that should have been made to the Tridentine Mass should have been our present cycles of readings (three readings on Sunday, three year cycle of Sunday readings, present two year cycle of weekday readings) and all readings in the vernacular. I think everything else could have been maintained. But that’s just me.
 
Maximilian75 said:
Pretty sure there are a few seminaries that make it mandatory for a quarter as well…
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Oh as well they should. But again, that’s a specialty off the path of the average high schooler in rural Idaho or Mississippi. That’s at the uni level.
 
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I had to take it as well- my high school, after it changed from a seminary, kept that tradition…

Linguam Latinam Mortua Est
 
…that is true, but we all do agree it’s most likely useful - just not essential. 😉
 
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Non mortua est, as long as one living person still reads or speaks it.
 
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Pup7 said:
So what? I seriously don’t care about fancy parochial high schools. If you can afford one, great. Most cannot.
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Here in Pittsburgh, I don’t think there are any parochial high schools left. Might be one out in the outer reaches of the diocese, but all of the Catholic schools which are left in the city proper are diocesan or independent schools.

The cost got out of hand when there weren’t enough nuns to teach and they had to hire people off the streets.
 
Indeed, they can be. More often than not these individuals are either elderly and nostalgic for “the good ole days”, or they’re reactionaries who would be thinking and saying what they’re already doing with or without the TLM. The TLM just provides them with what they feel is a safe space to do so. But it’s honestly been my experience that such people aren’t representative of the youth allegedly flocking to the TLM. We recognize that there’s such a subset of people we’re likely rubbing elbows with at Mass (to the extent that they actually have the stones to repeat in polite company what they crassly post online) and we mostly ignore them, unless justice would demand otherwise.

There’s this elderly woman in our parish who went around shaming some of the young ladies for not covering their heads at Mass. We all found out about this when a brand new woman to our parish mentioned it during our 30s/40s pub crawl. The other women who were already in the habit of covering their heads of their own volition were so outraged that they started joking about burning their mantillas in church (I hope they were joking 😉 ). They made a pact to remove their own head covering in solidarity and sit next to any female visitors from that point on before said busybody could get to them.
 
AlbertDerGrosse said:
There’s this elderly woman in our parish who went around shaming some of the young ladies for not covering their heads at Mass
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Its been decades since gals were expected to cover their heads in church.

I guess its understandable if its a Latin Mass parish. They wouldn’t like me either, my neckties are too wide for the 1950’s look.
 
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There’s this elderly woman in our parish who went around shaming some of the young ladies for not covering their heads at Mass. We all found out about this when a brand new woman to our parish mentioned it during our 30s/40s pub crawl. The other women who were already in the habit of covering their heads of their own volition were so outraged that they started joking about burning their mantillas in church (I hope they were joking 😉 ). They made a pact to remove their own head covering in solidarity and sit next to any female visitors from that point on before said busybody could get to them.
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This is the sort of stuff I’d be in on. A Veil-in (or out, I guess).

I love this.

Albert, your posts are awesome.
 
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Augustinian said:
They wouldn’t like me either, my neckties are too wide for the 1950’s look.
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Honestly they’d love you because you’re wearing a tie at all. Except me and one other dude none of the men wear ties, and I only do so when it’s an important holiday. Sorry, it’s California and we just don’t play that. 🙂
 
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Pup7 said:
Albert, your posts are awesome.
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Why thank ya, miss!

This is my first thread I’ve participated in (been lurking for a long while), and was compelled to register and participate since these “TLM & youth” topics have been quite popular lately. I’m curious what’s been causing the rise in interest. Perhaps its the recent uptick in similar articles by Peter Kwasniewski on New Liturgical Movement? 🤔
 
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No. They’ve always been bumping around. TLM v OF, communion in the hand, veiling, joining hands at the Pater Noster, etc…
 
Well it took him long enough! His little icon dude was “replying” for like, an hour!
 
As I’ve said on another thread, you haven’t been shamed during the Our Father until you’ve been stiletto-fingernail poked in the arm by a lady who shuffled all the way down the length of the pew so I would join the human chain. And I had my eyes closed.
I had to get a tetanus shot after Mass, just to be safe.
No more old lady casseroles for me at that parish…I’m that person!
 
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