[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Were you "hooked"?

Immediately. I never went to another N.O. Mass again.

What was it that captured you?

It was like being transported to another place spiritually. The sense of the sacred was palpable in the air. The newness of it all can be disorienting at first but the sense of being home is strong enough to overcome any minor concerns.

[magdalen]

I have not had an opportunity recently to attend the extraordinary form of the Mass and have only been to two in my adult life. But I would LOVE to have the opportunity. My pastor has already said he will NOT learn that Mass so locally it will not happen any time soon. And we are on the ‘cutting edge of the (so called) american catholic church’ so the idea of the Latin mass is not too big here.

HOwever I am visiting right now where there is an Anglican Use Mass and I am enjoying it very much. It is what should have happened when the vernacular was introduced intstead of giving the faithful a whole new (well not new as it was the Anglican liturgy) form of the Mass in the ‘novus ordo’

I look forward to attending the extraordinary form and already pray from an old missal and that gives me peace when there are shenanigans at Mass.

[murphE]

It was like being transported to another place spiritually. The sense of the sacred was palpable in the air.

The second TLM I ever went to was a Solemn High Mass. I finally understood what was meant by the statement I had heard since childhood, [that] ..."the mass is the closest thing to heaven on earth."