{"id":96,"date":"2015-08-07T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-07-17T01:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T05:54:16","slug":"ten-reasons-to-attend-the-traditional-latin-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/ten-reasons-to-attend-the-traditional-latin-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Reasons to Attend the Traditional Latin Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">The inestimable Dr Peter Kwasniewski and Michael P Foley have recently published an article over at OnePeterFive entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onepeterfive.com\/ten-reasons-to-attend-the-traditional-latin-mass\">Ten Reasons to Attend the Traditional Latin Mass<\/a>.\u201d With all the drama over \u201cliturgy wars,\u201d the hassle of finding a TLM, of wrestling the (usually) inconvenient times into the Sunday schedule, it\u2019s important to remember and think on WHY we attend the Traditional Latin Mass. We do it not out of hate for the Novus Ordo, but rather for LOVE of the Mass!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">I think my favorite reasons are numbers 1, 3, 5, and 7. The vast, vast majority of saints were formed by the Traditional Latin Mass in some form or another (be it either the Roman Rite itself or the medieval Rites and Uses it is similar to). We are talking about nearly 1,400 years of continuous worship in the same manner, style, and reverence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">To pair that up with numbers 5 &amp; 7, the proper prayers for the Mass stretch back centuries, and they have a cohesion and beauty that is unrivaled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Finally, number 3 gives us a certain quality that, along with 1, 5, and 7, transcends time and place. The universality of the Mass takes us out of our daily grind and whisks us away to a brief glimpse of a timeless place (Heaven). We don\u2019t have the burdens of our current culture\u2019s tastes and prejudices put upon us. We don\u2019t fall to the whims of the cutting edge or the trendy. We get the Mass, same as it was for my grandparents, for their parents, and for the parents of the medieval kings and princes, peasants and paupers, from Italy to France, from Portugal to Poland. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">It\u2019s always good to remember that the Mass is so much more than ourselves, our community, our parish, or our culture. It\u2019s about worshipping God, and THAT is the reason we go to Mass. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catholic4lifeblog.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass-after-pentecost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inestimable Dr Peter Kwasniewski and Michael P Foley have recently published an article over at OnePeterFive entitled \u201cTen Reasons to Attend the Traditional Latin Mass.\u201d With all the drama over \u201cliturgy wars,\u201d the hassle of finding a TLM, of wrestling the (usually) inconvenient times into the Sunday schedule, it\u2019s important to remember and think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[6,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-tlm","category-tradition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6hA2G-1y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}