The other day, someone mentioned to me that they’d be interested in the Traditional Latin Mass, but they couldn’t understand it. I assured them that since my little children could understand and follow the Mass that they could too. It may be confusing the first few times, but you’ll get the hang of it.
The Washington Post reports today that “the young” are gobbling up the TLM. Read more here…
For some, the popularity of the service represents the gap between older Catholics, who grew up in the more liberal, post-Vatican II era, and their younger counterparts, who say they feel like they missed out on the tradition that was jettisoned in the move to modernize.
Although Chris Paulitz’s parents never questioned the switch to the “new” Mass, Paulitz and his wife, Diane, only attend Latin Masses.
After each such service (sic), “you feel like you’ve learned something and you’ve grown a bit,” said Chris, 32, in an interview after a recent Mass at St. Rita’s Church in Alexandria.
Priests, musicians and laypeople are snapping up how-to videos and books, signing up for workshops and viewing online tutorials with step-by-step instructions on the elaborately choreographed liturgy. For example, the rubrics dictate that a priest must hold together the thumb and index finger of each hand for much of the Canon of the Mass, the central part of the liturgy that culminates with the consecration of bread and wine.
