1) My Godparents had been encouraging them to come
2) I was not allowed to get my first communion in the NO
3) When my dad attended the first time, he started crying because he felt "Why was this stolen from me. How could I have missed out on this my whole life."
I've stayed in TLM for the most part my whole life.
I attend daily mass in the NO rite and have nothing against NO, I just have something against bad priests.
Often I have good spiritual experience with NO, but I often feel there is a lack of reverence for the 'making present' of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Something about a well-said TLM is just so moving.
Thank you Silas, for sharing your experience. I grew up in the novus Ordo, it was still quite reverent when I in college. But of recent years it's gotten too weird, in some parishes, one feels like an outsider. Our families are in the novus Ordo, only my husband, me, and our son go to the TLM. I wish the TLM returns to the main Church soon. The Novus Ordo has not helped the Faith of Catholics.
This Sunday will begin my second month of attending TLM. The church is a short bus ride from my home, even though there are at least two Catholic churches closer. It's worth it to me. I'm trying to get to know the people there, but that's never easy for me. They're good people. If nothing else, I expect to grow in humility. My deepest wish is to grow closer to The Lord and practice my Christian faith in the most sincere way I can.
It's always encouraging to read such experiences. Traveling far away, when there are Churches nearby.
Don't worry about getting to know people, enjoy the heritage that you missed. We traveled for 4 years and spoke to a few people. Now that we have shifted close to the chapel serving the Traditional Mass, we have had the chance to talk to the faithful. One thing we appreciate and you will find it too, is the freedom to just pray or adore. Almost everyone is serious about the Faith, so no one will judge you as weird for praying too long or sitting quietly by yourself, in adoration.
The TLM by itself teaches us so much, it's heaven this side of life.
I live a little ways away from a TLM, but I have attended the parish several times over the past year, and I consider myself a traditional Catholic. Someday, I hope to attend the TLM as my regular parish.
I came to tradition through a few different means. Growing up attending Seton Home Study School, I learned about the traditional sacraments. I remember being very disappointed at how short and anticlimactic a NO Baptism is when I attended one in high school. When I graduated high school, I became friends with a fellow Seton graduate who taught me a lot about the TLM. At this friend's recommendation, I purchased the book Treasure and Tradition, which helped me learn the sights, sounds, smells, and bells of the traditional Mass.
In 2020, I streamed Masses at the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles' priory chapel (TLM). I also often streamed TLM from St. John Cantius in Chicago throughout 2020 and 2021. By that time, I was all in and considered myself a trad. Around that same time, I also took a couple liturgy courses in college, in which I learned the shockingly destructive history of the NO, further backing my "conversion" to tradition.
Even though my family still generally attends NO due to certain reasons (mainly owing to the length of the drive), we try to attend more traditional NO parishes that uphold the true reverence and beauty of the Mass as much as possible.
Wow. Thanks for sharing your story Chantal. I'm going to get the book, Treasure and Tradition.
You know the saddest part is crossing by our churches to go to someone's home or to a small chapel to attend the TLM, these are our churches, these are Catholic Churches and inside them are fellow Catholics who don't know about Tradition. Also, we had decided to not attend a NO so as to not confusr our son, who was barely 7 years old. But it was not easy, we used to go for adoration and confession to the nearby NO church, but avoided as far as possible the Mass.
The TLM Mass for us was anywhere between 7 to 11 hours by road, because there was just one priest serving multiple locations.
God bless our priests both NO and Traditional, I pray for the TLM to return as the ordinary way we worship.
I've been to one Latin Mass, a Low Mass on a Saturday morning at our parish. I'm a 2007 convert to the faith. Previous affiliation--unaffiliated heathen. My wife was my witness, and everything in my life just seemed to fall into place when I began following the Lord. So, until that day a year ago, the debate about liturgy that I was reading about really had no context. Seeing that Latin Mass, though, opened my eyes to a world I had never experienced. Suddenly, I understood all the debate points about the liturgy, and I saw, quite frankly, what had been taken away from us. Little wonder that church attendance had fallen off, little wonder that belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist had fallen off as well. To paraphrase our parish priest on his Latin Mass, I am not entirely sure what I saw, but it was beautiful and it was reverent and it was holy. That's my experience thus far!
Dave, this is so beautiful, thank you for sharing your story. My family came to Tradition on Christmas day 2019. We have since then fallen in love with the Traditional Mass, and like you we understood first hand what's been taken away from us. It seems like the only way for Catholics to understand Tradition, is for them to attend one Mass. The Holy Mass itself does all the teaching needed.
At age 6, my parents started going.
The main reasons were,
1) My Godparents had been encouraging them to come
2) I was not allowed to get my first communion in the NO
3) When my dad attended the first time, he started crying because he felt "Why was this stolen from me. How could I have missed out on this my whole life."
I've stayed in TLM for the most part my whole life.
I attend daily mass in the NO rite and have nothing against NO, I just have something against bad priests.
Often I have good spiritual experience with NO, but I often feel there is a lack of reverence for the 'making present' of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Something about a well-said TLM is just so moving.
Thank you Silas, for sharing your experience. I grew up in the novus Ordo, it was still quite reverent when I in college. But of recent years it's gotten too weird, in some parishes, one feels like an outsider. Our families are in the novus Ordo, only my husband, me, and our son go to the TLM. I wish the TLM returns to the main Church soon. The Novus Ordo has not helped the Faith of Catholics.
This Sunday will begin my second month of attending TLM. The church is a short bus ride from my home, even though there are at least two Catholic churches closer. It's worth it to me. I'm trying to get to know the people there, but that's never easy for me. They're good people. If nothing else, I expect to grow in humility. My deepest wish is to grow closer to The Lord and practice my Christian faith in the most sincere way I can.
It's always encouraging to read such experiences. Traveling far away, when there are Churches nearby.
Don't worry about getting to know people, enjoy the heritage that you missed. We traveled for 4 years and spoke to a few people. Now that we have shifted close to the chapel serving the Traditional Mass, we have had the chance to talk to the faithful. One thing we appreciate and you will find it too, is the freedom to just pray or adore. Almost everyone is serious about the Faith, so no one will judge you as weird for praying too long or sitting quietly by yourself, in adoration.
The TLM by itself teaches us so much, it's heaven this side of life.
I live a little ways away from a TLM, but I have attended the parish several times over the past year, and I consider myself a traditional Catholic. Someday, I hope to attend the TLM as my regular parish.
I came to tradition through a few different means. Growing up attending Seton Home Study School, I learned about the traditional sacraments. I remember being very disappointed at how short and anticlimactic a NO Baptism is when I attended one in high school. When I graduated high school, I became friends with a fellow Seton graduate who taught me a lot about the TLM. At this friend's recommendation, I purchased the book Treasure and Tradition, which helped me learn the sights, sounds, smells, and bells of the traditional Mass.
In 2020, I streamed Masses at the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles' priory chapel (TLM). I also often streamed TLM from St. John Cantius in Chicago throughout 2020 and 2021. By that time, I was all in and considered myself a trad. Around that same time, I also took a couple liturgy courses in college, in which I learned the shockingly destructive history of the NO, further backing my "conversion" to tradition.
Even though my family still generally attends NO due to certain reasons (mainly owing to the length of the drive), we try to attend more traditional NO parishes that uphold the true reverence and beauty of the Mass as much as possible.
Wow. Thanks for sharing your story Chantal. I'm going to get the book, Treasure and Tradition.
You know the saddest part is crossing by our churches to go to someone's home or to a small chapel to attend the TLM, these are our churches, these are Catholic Churches and inside them are fellow Catholics who don't know about Tradition. Also, we had decided to not attend a NO so as to not confusr our son, who was barely 7 years old. But it was not easy, we used to go for adoration and confession to the nearby NO church, but avoided as far as possible the Mass.
The TLM Mass for us was anywhere between 7 to 11 hours by road, because there was just one priest serving multiple locations.
God bless our priests both NO and Traditional, I pray for the TLM to return as the ordinary way we worship.
I've been to one Latin Mass, a Low Mass on a Saturday morning at our parish. I'm a 2007 convert to the faith. Previous affiliation--unaffiliated heathen. My wife was my witness, and everything in my life just seemed to fall into place when I began following the Lord. So, until that day a year ago, the debate about liturgy that I was reading about really had no context. Seeing that Latin Mass, though, opened my eyes to a world I had never experienced. Suddenly, I understood all the debate points about the liturgy, and I saw, quite frankly, what had been taken away from us. Little wonder that church attendance had fallen off, little wonder that belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist had fallen off as well. To paraphrase our parish priest on his Latin Mass, I am not entirely sure what I saw, but it was beautiful and it was reverent and it was holy. That's my experience thus far!
Dave, this is so beautiful, thank you for sharing your story. My family came to Tradition on Christmas day 2019. We have since then fallen in love with the Traditional Mass, and like you we understood first hand what's been taken away from us. It seems like the only way for Catholics to understand Tradition, is for them to attend one Mass. The Holy Mass itself does all the teaching needed.