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It sounds like you have a steadily improving situation in South Carolina, and I congratulate you for that. I will have to try to visit the TLM in Taylors. However, please understand that the Latin mass has been at the very center of my interest in Catholicism from the very beginning and I will not compromise on this issue. I know what the typical AmChurch English Novus Ordo mass is like and have no interest in attending it, ever.

I view the Traditional Latin Mass, the mass of Palestrina and Bach (like me, a non-Catholic), as part of the foundation of Western Civilization. I view the abandonment of Latin/chant/polyphony and the other post-V2 changes as a lamentable surrender to the egalitarian, democratic, anti-intellectual, anti-Western spirit of our age, and as part of the de-Europeanization of American culture and religion. Therefore as an unreconstructed Eurocentric reactionary monarchist I can have nothing to do with the Novus Ordo, although I might make an exception for a Latin N.O. as celebrated at St. Agnes Church in St. Paul, MN. However, I am not moving to Minnesota, I am not moving to South Carolina; I am moving to North Carolina, where the SSPX remains the only option for those desiring to attend a Latin mass.

The Charleston Renaissance Ensemble will be singing a Palestrina Mass and other works for Stella Maris parish in Sullivan's Island with Msgr. McInerny on May 16 on Sunday.

I agree with you on one point. If I were in Charlotte, knowing what I know now, I would probably attend the SSPX regularly also. They are the only place for sanity in some dioceses. However, I believe that when/if a new bishop becomes open to the TLM, one is obligated to work within the diocesan structure as much as possible to bring about regularization.

Despite what many attempt to portray, I can understand wholeheartedly why many people attend the SSPX parish. I just don't think it is right to malign the entire Novus Ordo structure when the Director of Worship and Prayer for the Diocese is going to be regularly offering the TLM, and providing other traditional devotion opportunities.