Tridentine Mass?
Mon, 06/29/2009 - 9:30pm
What are your views on the Tridentine mass? If you don't like it, then what are your views on the coming changes to the Novus Ordo mass? I am not talking about the people invovled. Obviously many people who love the Tridentine mass are a bit too far opposed to the real Catholic Church because they deny that the Novus Ordo is in fact a mass.
Wed, 07/01/2009 - 9:52pm
#2
Have only participated in a Latin Norvus Ordo Mass
Just a point of clarification...it has been designated as the "Extraordinary Form". Very reverant.
All I can say is that Latin is beauuutifulll! It defintely brings a 'mystical' element to the Mass.
THE site to get up to speed on it is www.wdtprs.com.
Wed, 07/01/2009 - 10:26pm
#3
I have to say, I have a deep
I have to say, I have a deep love for the Mass in both rites (heck, it's the same event, right?). I love attending both forms, because the Extraordinary rite brings me into the liturgy as experienced by hundreds of years of Catholics, while the Ordinary form makes it a little easier (in my mind, at least) for me to follow the priest in his sacrifice.
Now, having the Ordinary form Mass in Latin is a special treat for me... of course, I can follow along, and know enough Latin to know what's up; it definitely isn't something that could be sprung on a parish!
Mon, 07/20/2009 - 3:55pm
#4
I attend the Traditional
I attend the Traditional Latin Mass on Sundays(Friars of the Immaculate) and NO on weekdays. One important thing to remember is that the Low Mass in the TLM is not the prefered form. Many people will attend a Low Mass as their first TLM and find it boring and quiet. The Missa Cantata or Sung Mass is much more like the current Sunday Mass. Illiterate peasants excellerated to sanctity without knowing Latin, but I do see the aversion to the language the greatest challenge for newcomers.
Tue, 07/21/2009 - 7:45am
#5
Impressive
Didn't realize OSCatholics were so Traddy. Woot.
I've not been able to attend too many Latin Masses, but hands down the most reverent beautiful Mass Ive been to was at St. Agnes in St. Paul. It was the Mozart Requiem Mass performed by the Minnesota Orchestra on All Souls Day about 10 years ago.
There are no words to describe it. It felt like a glimpse into Heaven.
Tue, 07/21/2009 - 12:37pm
#6
@catholicservant
May Msgr.
@catholicservant
May Msgr. Schuler rest in peace!
Wed, 07/29/2009 - 7:47pm
#7
Traditional Latin Mass
Our Parish, which is also the Cathedral in Birmingham is having the instruction on August 15 in preparation of bringing it back...can't wait. Have never been to the one in person, but have seen it on tv.
Thu, 07/30/2009 - 8:55am
#8
@JoaoMachado It is definitely
@JoaoMachado It is definitely a different experience than the Ordinary Form. Don't be too worried about getting everything right the first time, just try and take it all in.
I love the Traditional Latin Mass. My first experience of it was a high Mass in a Midwestern cathedral. Now I have sung for one and prepared for it.
I'll say this: the experience has made me appreciate both the liturgical reforms the council fathers actually asked for in Vatican II and appreciate the many ways in which those reforms were hijacked to mean things the fathers never said at all, or to exaggerate things they said until they contradict other things they said. Obvious example: The council said that the vernacular could be used in the Mass. It did not say the whole Mass should be in the vernacular, all the time, in most every parish, and that Latin should be effectively banished. On the contrary, it said every Catholic should know the Latin responses. Etc.
Basically, my answer is that we should practice the hermeneutic of continuity, as Pope Benedict XVI calls it.