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I was here YEARS ago too, not too long after 1996 when it got started. My husband taught me how to use the computer in 1980 when computers first got off the ground. I had to use it in my job a LOT and got tired of working on it and was delighted to find a site that didn't require WORK.
I left this site for almost seven years because of family illnesses and deaths. They BROKE my heart and took the wind completely out of my sails for a L-O-N-G time.
It's been 15 months now since those deaths and I am beginning to feel a bit better. So I have been back on the FR for some months.
Nothing much has changed.
As for old versus new rite...we STILL get to take in the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of God. The Mass has changed more than once over the last 2000 years...and so what? What BETTER way to start my day?
We still get to hear the epistles of St. Paul and the WORD OF GOD through Matthew, Mark, Luke and John THEN take in the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of God.
I learned my habit of DAILY MASS in Saudi Arabia, with the blessing of my boss, Mohammad Hussein. But, that's another story. Priests, reverends and a vicar were NOT allowed in Saudi Arabia, but they called the men "special teachers" so we Catholics DID have daily Mass, in a large room in the center clubhouse.
I STILL go to daily Mass. How could I miss it? At least now I don't have to go to 6:30 A.M. Mass since I am retired and can go to daily 9:00 A.M. Mass! Life is good.
God bless you and yours.
For whatever reasons, you seem to have missed the import of my original question for Brian.
The conversations between folks about the new vs. the old rites were often quite bitter and acrimonious, with many advocates of the old rite hostile toward those who preferred the new, even toward those who had a live-and-let-live attitude.
That's what my question was about.
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