I genuinely don’t understand why the Tridentine Rite cannot be available widely, and understand totally that this decision has hurt a lot of excellent Catholics. I used to go regularly and found it quite beautiful, meaningful, and contemplative. Now, on the flip side…I work with A LOT of former and lapsed Catholics in Cardinal Gregory’s …
I genuinely don’t understand why the Tridentine Rite cannot be available widely, and understand totally that this decision has hurt a lot of excellent Catholics. I used to go regularly and found it quite beautiful, meaningful, and contemplative. Now, on the flip side…I work with A LOT of former and lapsed Catholics in Cardinal Gregory’s archdiocese and the one just across the river. The Latin Mass has a lot of potential to be an evangelizing mechanism beyond what it was for the last five years. BUT we have a big culture problem. The point of theology is not to discipline people into shape… a genuine conversion takes years. We need to get better at allowing people to freely try out a parish + to be a non-judgmental friend. Jesus Christ manifests himself in the Eucharist so that we are not left on this earth in our misery alone. He is very comfortable with the messiness in our lives. Unfortunately, there are so parishes where we’ve allowed ourselves to stomp a lot of Catholics out of the Church. If you genuinely feel the love of God in the Traditional Latin Mass, I want you to be there every day and never end up being ministered to by me (working largely with former Catholics). If someone comes to you with a widely different idea of how to be Catholic, for heavens sake please be patient.
I genuinely don’t understand why the Tridentine Rite cannot be available widely, and understand totally that this decision has hurt a lot of excellent Catholics. I used to go regularly and found it quite beautiful, meaningful, and contemplative. Now, on the flip side…I work with A LOT of former and lapsed Catholics in Cardinal Gregory’s archdiocese and the one just across the river. The Latin Mass has a lot of potential to be an evangelizing mechanism beyond what it was for the last five years. BUT we have a big culture problem. The point of theology is not to discipline people into shape… a genuine conversion takes years. We need to get better at allowing people to freely try out a parish + to be a non-judgmental friend. Jesus Christ manifests himself in the Eucharist so that we are not left on this earth in our misery alone. He is very comfortable with the messiness in our lives. Unfortunately, there are so parishes where we’ve allowed ourselves to stomp a lot of Catholics out of the Church. If you genuinely feel the love of God in the Traditional Latin Mass, I want you to be there every day and never end up being ministered to by me (working largely with former Catholics). If someone comes to you with a widely different idea of how to be Catholic, for heavens sake please be patient.