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Our new parish as I've probably mentioned here many times by now has masses in both Italian and English and is the most English parish in our neighborhood. Right now the church is on a summer schedule and the only Daily Mass is in English and is at 8:30. Beginning in September there will be a Daily Mass at 7:30 but it will be Tridentine.
Dh and I are pretty traditional liturgically but we aren't all for just going back to 1963 and we have had more than one painful experience of Tridentine communities. We hesitate to align ourselves this way in a dying (but very orthodox) parish where we hope to actively build a community of young families. We are also worried about the kids being confused if we go to one kind of Mass during the week and another on Sunday. Don't the two rites have different calendars?
But the 7:30 time is better for our family and there is much we could learn--all of us--from exposure to a different rite, more Latin, etc.
Any thoughts?
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We go to a NO daily mass during the week and the TLM on Sundays and HDO and First Fridays and Saturdays.
I don't really find it confusing. Now, before the SP came out, the TLM alternated with the NO in Latin on Sundays, and THAT was seriously confusing.
We just follow the new calendar for most feast days unless it is Christ the King or other Sunday biggies or HDOs.
One reason we love our TLM is because have been blessed to find a wonderful community of young, joyful, and charitable families, some of which who have had experiences like yours in other places. Plenty of bad NO communities out there, too, yk, and it doesn't taint them all by any stretch. So, I would give it a chance before I used that as a reason not to go.
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Good point, Lindsay. And, honestly it doesn't seem like there's much of a TLM "community" here. The great, old priests in our parish grew up in the fifties in great, healthy, liturgically vibrant parishes and now that the TLM is allowed everywhere I think he wants to have it as an option. So maybe we can help this community grow across the board by attending both. Thinking about families we know who we'd love to see living in our neighborhood in the future, most of them would prefer a TLM anyway.
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We are fortunate to have TLM (just recently added to another of our Diocese Churches) here in our diocese and love it.
Our church is a very old church and in downtown, it is beautiful. We attend both TLM and NO there. Our children do not find it confusing, and love both Masses. We still have confession before every Mass, in the confessionals at the back of the Church and there is always a line. Wonderful, ey?
We are fairly new to the area, but from what I understand, the orthodoxy of our parish has been a big draw to the many of the younger, homeschooling (or not) families here in our city. There is a very largish group of families that travel from all over the city to our Church on Sundays. Many do attend daily Mass nearer their homes.
In the past we have been fortunate to live near a Byzantine Catholic Church (in communion with Rome) where we attended vespers services fairly regularly in the evenings. That was amazing. The Byzantine Liturgy was a treat to all the senses.
We bask in the richness of the traditions in the Church, and feel fortunate to have been able participate in person at the different rites that make up our vast and rich faith.
Here's my church.
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