[AnAmericanMother]

Wow, unless you're in the Diocese from Hell (and, sadly, some people are), there must be an Ordinary Form Mass somewhere that's reverent and proper.

Our parish is Ordinary Form, although we chant the Ordinary of the Mass in Latin every First Sunday. Our younger Parochial Vicar has gotten hold of the DVD from the FSSP and is learning the Extraordinary Rite (the younger priests in this archdiocese are VERY orthodox). Of course, our archbishop invited the FSSP in years ago - their parish is down the road a ways and doing quite well.

But our priests are holy men and careful to celebrate reverently, we kneel in all the proper places, nobody looks at you funny if you kneel to receive or receive on the tongue (I always do). (But if you hold hands during the "Our Father" or do the "holy field goal attempt" at the Sursum Corda, you WILL get funny looks!)

But before skipping my Sunday obligation just because I was upset, I would find a holy priest and clear all this with him, rather than making a judgment based on feelings and something you read on the internet. I have been to some pretty strange Masses rather than miss . . . as Sister Mary Attila used to say, "Offer it up!"

[steve86]

Thank you, but I am of the steadfast conviction that any Mass not celebrated Ad Orentem is blasphemous, in the sense of being impiously irreverent and man-centered, not to mention the important omissions and changes to the liturgy, and general Protestant-isms that permeate the actions of the priest and servers. So that won't be possible.

[dsc]

“But before skipping my Sunday obligation just because I was upset, I would find a holy priest and clear all this with him”

In this diocese you’d have better luck finding a leprechaun.