Originally Posted by RMulhern
Originally Posted by derby_dude
Originally Posted by rost495
Originally Posted by RMulhern
My attendance has fallen by the wayside when the Latin Mass was abandoned....and we've had priests which I couldn't understand what they were saying!

Whatever happened to....Benediction and Irish priest??


I'm impressed you understand a Latin Mass!


That was the final straw for me was the end of the Tridentine Mass and the fact that my perpetual missal was THE book one Sunday and was useless the next Sunday. Try as I might I never could get into the "New" Catholic Church after Vatican Council II.

That's also when I realized that the Catholic Church was the Roman Pope's Church i.e. the ancient Roman Emperor's Church and the religion about Jesus or God, NOT the religion of Jesus or God. I left Christianity with no regrets.


I started serving Mass in 1946! The nuns taught us Latin...and I served Mass while in the military quite often up until I was 23 years old!


That was a good point. Back in the old days everybody learned Latin and no matter where you went, no matter the language every Catholic could speak some Latin and one could get by. Not now.

BTW: Full Disclosure, I served a stint or two as a Catholic Chaplain's Assistant in the National Guard.


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