Honest question: why don't you attend the TLM? I am a 3 year old Catholic who was Protestant for 50 yrs. The Holy Spirit drew drew me via the TLM. Glory to Jesus Christ.
Yeah, I get that. I bet you can easily imagine the suffering of all those TLM goers whose parish communities have been destroyed by Traditionis Custodes...
My experience is that it is very exclusionary. Unless you follow everything exactly right you get the eye rolls and shunning. It always seems all about the ritual and not the spirit of communion. I never feel connected to the mystical Body of Christ.
Praising the Latin Mass parish for "deradicalizing" young men reveals that the primary function of the Indult or Diocesan Latin Mass is sedation. The so-called "online radical" often possesses a correct instinct: he perceives that the hierarchy is teaching heresy and is justifiably angry that the Faith is under attack. The "parish deradicalization" process neutralizes this by using social pressure to force him to suppress this realization for the sake of fitting into a "nice community." Consequently, the young man trades Doctrinal Purity for Social Comfort, accepting an "Anglicanised" compromise where he ignores the heresy of his leaders to preserve his aesthetic liturgy and social circle: a shift from embodied faith to embodied compromise.
Furthermore, confessing that restrictions on the Latin Mass "cut off online Trads... and lost the community that kept them tethered," is an admittance that the "approved" Latin Mass acts as a tether to the Conciliar Sect. To wit, as long as a Traditionalist attends a Diocesan Latin Mass, he remains juridically and psychologically bound to the Novus Ordo structure, implicitly acknowledging the authority of those destroying the Church. The restrictions of Traditionis Custodes backfired precisely because they severed this tether, forcing Traditionalists to realize they do not need Vatican approval to be Catholic. Any relaxation of these restrictions is merely a strategic attempt to re-attach the tether and prevent the faithful from concluding that the Conciliar Church is a false institution.
Honest question: why don't you attend the TLM? I am a 3 year old Catholic who was Protestant for 50 yrs. The Holy Spirit drew drew me via the TLM. Glory to Jesus Christ.
I just love my parish church too much! I’d miss the community. I do love the Latin Mass when I can go
Yeah, I get that. I bet you can easily imagine the suffering of all those TLM goers whose parish communities have been destroyed by Traditionis Custodes...
We must stand strong! And pray!
My experience is that it is very exclusionary. Unless you follow everything exactly right you get the eye rolls and shunning. It always seems all about the ritual and not the spirit of communion. I never feel connected to the mystical Body of Christ.
Praising the Latin Mass parish for "deradicalizing" young men reveals that the primary function of the Indult or Diocesan Latin Mass is sedation. The so-called "online radical" often possesses a correct instinct: he perceives that the hierarchy is teaching heresy and is justifiably angry that the Faith is under attack. The "parish deradicalization" process neutralizes this by using social pressure to force him to suppress this realization for the sake of fitting into a "nice community." Consequently, the young man trades Doctrinal Purity for Social Comfort, accepting an "Anglicanised" compromise where he ignores the heresy of his leaders to preserve his aesthetic liturgy and social circle: a shift from embodied faith to embodied compromise.
Furthermore, confessing that restrictions on the Latin Mass "cut off online Trads... and lost the community that kept them tethered," is an admittance that the "approved" Latin Mass acts as a tether to the Conciliar Sect. To wit, as long as a Traditionalist attends a Diocesan Latin Mass, he remains juridically and psychologically bound to the Novus Ordo structure, implicitly acknowledging the authority of those destroying the Church. The restrictions of Traditionis Custodes backfired precisely because they severed this tether, forcing Traditionalists to realize they do not need Vatican approval to be Catholic. Any relaxation of these restrictions is merely a strategic attempt to re-attach the tether and prevent the faithful from concluding that the Conciliar Church is a false institution.