Would you attend the TLM if your Parish offered it?

Traditional Catholicism
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  • Absolutely
  • Hard pass
  • Soft pass
  • I would take the TLM Challenge (and go four Sundays in a row)
  • Other
0 voters
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I would go if it were the only Mass to fulfill my obligation. A couple of times this year I’ve been to Mass when the priest said the Eucharistic Prayer in Latin with his back to the congregation. One of them said to us that he was talking to God, not to the congregation, so we didn’t need to hear him. Since I couldn’t see, hear, or understand, I was aware of the consecration only from the bells and then elevation of the Host and chalice. If that’s how people want to pray, let them, but I prefer to see, hear, and understand.

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I personally like when the Priest is ad orientem (to the East). The Priest is In persona Christi (in the person of Christ who is our High Priest) making an offering of The Sacrificial Lamb (Christ Himself). He is not offering the Sacrifice to us, but rather to the Father, though when we receive the body, blood, soul, and divinity of our Savior in the Blessed Sacrament, it is in a sense an offering to us and we an offering to Him (intimacy with the Lord).

I think that traditionally the emphasis was on the first part and less about the second and since Vatican II the emphasis has been more on the second aspect and the first aspect nearly forgotten.

What we need is a balance between the two. To only focus on the first aspect is to make it merely ritual, but to only focus on the communion aspect of it, denies the reality of what Christ has done and is doing presently for believers throughout generations. Meaning, Christ was offering Himself up for my Grandparents and my Great-Grandparents, for Christians in the Fourth Century, the First Century, and to us Today (Praise be to God).

The Jewish people no longer do animal sacrifices since the destruction of the Temple, but Jesus is the Temple that was rebuilt in three days! Jesus is the High Priest. Jesus is the Sacrificial Lamb.

It is also true that the church is the bride of Christ. The church is the mystical body of Christ. The church is the branches, Christ is the vine, and God the Father is the vine-grower.

Jesus is our spiritual Brother and our Savior. Mary is our spiritual Mother and her soul magnifies the Lord, her Son.

Whether the Priest is facing East or facing us, the Eucharist is both and offering to God and a gift to us. Eucharist means “thanksgiving.” If one is not thankful for all that Jesus has done and continues to do for us and in us, then I do not think they understand what a gift the Lord has given us.

When Jesus was pierced on Calvary, water and blood flowed from His side, symbolizing Baptism and Eucharist, two means by which Christ’s salvific grace flows through the Church.

As St. Paul says, when we are Baptized, we are buried with Christ and rise with Him anew.

And as Christ tells us, “Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me and I in him.”

Let us not take this gift of Life for granted! Let us become Eucharist by offering our lives to Him and co-operating with His grace, which will bear much fruit. And so we respond to all that He has done, Amen! (I believe) â™±

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I was just explaining my vote in the poll.

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