Extremely close. My best friend is a former Episcopalian. We attend the indult Tridentine Mass about every month or six weeks. He is "home" whenever he attends with me. His younger daughters are also impressed. I am struck by how many of the young fall in love with this Mass.
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On a slight tangent, a friend of mine has two sons. The younger son is around six years old. He used to be quite fidgety during Mass. A month or so ago he expressed an interest in serving at the TLM (it is usually a Missa Cantata). Although I think the rules say that one must be at least the age of reason to serve Mass, an exception was made in his case (circumstances that I won't get into on a public forum). It is amazing how well he has taken to it. Not to mention how adorable he looks in his little cassock and surplice.
I remember reading that the whole purpose of Vatican II was blithely summed up as 'letting the light in a little.' It seems that in doing so, and in de-emphasizing the solemnity and mystery of the celebration of the mass, the reverence for the ceremony, and through that, the great strength the mass imparted to the individul, never passed to those of us born after Vatican II.
As a recent returnee to regular celebration of and adherence to the tenets of our faith, I feel a little short-changed at having missed the traditional mass, and wonder if I could have avoided those lost years had there been more reverence instilled by the mass itself- when I was a kid, it seemed to me that I wasn't missing anything by not practicing my faith. Young people and 30-somethings like me were denied the ability to experience living history and making a connection with two millenia of tradition through seeing a traditional mass. Perhaps, when I was newly confirmed and stopped going to church as a teen, I would have stuck around a little longer had some more reverence for the mass been instilled in me. As it was, the tambourines, guitars and lame folk songs were enough to make me embarrassed to be there.