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"Is this your first time going to a real Catholic Mass?" James Scott, 59, of Tustin asked a St. Mary's visitor. "Well, this is what it really is. Everything else is garbage."

I consider that remark a slappable offense. Any time in purgatory, would be time well worth spent over giving a slap.

It is PRECISELY this attitude that will turn off many from seeking to attend a Tridentine Mass. "Our mass is perfect, while your mass is crap." The implication is that "Only OUR Eucharist is validly confected." This is PRECISELY why many bishops do not allow for more Tridentine masses.

The hell with Scott. Can't say I like hand-holding during the Our Father but at least the people who do it aren't conceited, as a general rule and have some sense of charity.

Naturally, there are NO CATHOLIC EDITORS at this newspaper, otherwise they'd have a clue that the "Roman rite" isn't the ONLY catholic rite. To say this was the "only way" for "hundreds of years" is plainly wrong.

"Is this your first time going to a real Catholic Mass?" James Scott, 59, of Tustin asked a St. Mary's visitor. "Well, this is what it really is. Everything else is garbage."

I consider that remark a slappable offense.

I encountered precisely that attitude, about 15 years ago, during an inadvertent visti to an "independant" Traditional Latin Mass chapel in Chesapeake Virginia.

I didn't go back.

The chapel has since gone legit, and changed its name.

Before you throw stones, if you consider this a slappable offense, then take a moment to consider why these people feel the way they do. The traditional community, because of being treated like dirt for so long have a seige mentality, and you say "The Hell with............." shows how much charity you have.