Question of age

[MikeSolimanto]

I was a monk and seminarian and never even knew another and real Roman  rite existed. How pathetic is that? I'm not born in the 80's but in  1976 and am 28 right now. I never saw a traditional Mass until I was 23  and I was absolutely floored.
 
  Everytime I heard complaints about Mass and the argument of Latin all I  ever heard was is a Mass is a Mass and it doesn't matter if it's Latin  or English. I never knew they changed the prayers and the postures too.  
 
  How sad.
 
 

[Jarrod_D]

At our chapel there are some older people who attend because this is the way it was when they grew up, but they are a minority. The majority are those who grew up in Novus Ordoland; and see its defects.

 

Oh how nice it is to see young couples attend the traditional mass.  Young women whom the world wishes to be radical feminist's kneeling next to their boatload of children with a mantilla on ... certainly a "sign of contradicition."

 

(I have to menation this thought here in the guys section ... for fear of being called a sexist)

 

Jarrod

[mattc]

Although I am not as radical as some of the people on here (well, at least not yet), and haven't completely separated myself from the NO entirely, I can't see how anyone who is serious about the Catholic faith would want anything else but the traditional ways.

 

 It seems to me that the NO folks I know *don't* take the faith that seriously. The ones who speak up seem to consider religion something that they do in addition to their other "lifestyle choices." Many grew up as Catholics but now that they are adults the NO parish allows them to express all their liberal ideas without reprimand from the priests, who appear to agree, or at least keep quiet. I hear much more support for ideas that contradict Church teaching than I do for traditional ideology. They seem to question everything.
 
 By the way, I am way to old to post in this thread (1968 :-)
 
 -Matt-

[HMiS]

At our chapel there are some older people who attend because this is the way it was when they grew up, but they are a minority.

 

Yes, these are there, but many of them don't know that inconsciously they attend because they sense the New Rite is defective in some sense.

 

The small local chapel I serve the TLM sometimes, also has a lot of Papalist Catholics just not wanting to admit they "prefer" the Old Mass because it is the only bastion against heresy.....at least in the western rite (world wide almost that is).....