We are fortunate to live somewhere where there are many, many Catholic parishes to attend. We love the pastor of our territorial parish, but he's a big ham up on the altar, and I've just gotten too old and crotchety to put up with it. We rarely, if ever, attend Mass there.
These days, we usually just go down to the Shrine (the Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception) in DC. Msgr. Rossi runs a pretty tight ship, and Masses there range from Masses celebrated with no egregious deviations from the rubrics to Masses celebrated by priests who took the time to do it right, letting the light of Christ shine through the liturgy rather than their own egos.
I'll continue to wait with Pope Francis. I wonder whether actions that would appear reasonable in one culture - Latin America - might not be quite right on a wider stage. Perhaps the new pope will learn that what flies in Buenos Aires may be less helpful to the Universal Church. I don't know. Maybe I'm just too rule-bound and uptight, LOL. For now, I'll just wait and watch and hope that he'll catch on and do a bang-up job of it.
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Think how much of this angst could be put away, how much good will our Pope Francis could instantly create, if, unlike his predecessor, he simply offered a humble low Traditional Latin Mass in the near future?
It need not be a papal mass at St. Peters or the Lateran. Just a simple humble low PUBLIC Traditional Latin Mass at some out of the way chapel or parish.
Since he does not feel bound by precedence or rubrics, he need not worry about lacking all the trappings and papal household elements his predecessor may have felt were necessary to “do it right.”