[ejo]

Haven't you had the feeling lately, when attending a Mass that you might have inadvertantly stepped into the wrong church??

[Maximilian]

Haven't you had the feeling lately, when attending a Mass that you might have inadvertantly stepped into the wrong church??

Well not lately, but that's because I haven't attended a New Mass in a long time. But every time that I read or see anything about a New Mass or the post-conciliar Church (like the diocesan newspaper they insist on mailing to my house even though I don't want it), I get the distinct feeling that I'm in the "wrong church," and I don't just mean the building. I get the distinct feeling that the post-conciliar church is now one more branch of protestantism -- there are Methodist protestants and Lutheran protestants and Baptist protestants, and now there are Catholic protestants -- they are all now different sects of protestantism. They look like protestants, they act like protestants, they believe like protestants, why not call a spade a spade?

[rogator]

"Haven't you had the feeling lately, when attending a Mass that you might have inadvertantly stepped into the wrong church??"

I got this feeling in 1969 when I returned from Viet Nam. I went to Mass at a church near my new assignment in California and I heard for the first time at Mass the doxology after the Pater Noster.
We immediately left thinking that we had accidently been attending a Protestant service.