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>>My kids like the N.O. and balk at going to the Tridentine.

It depends on the age of your kids. My two oldest are basically living their own lives now, and we have a very hard time getting them to the Latin Mass. But my younger children, including 2 teenage daughters, LOVE going to the Latin Mass. They get sick at the thought of participating in the sacrilege which we only recently attended.

My children have commented independently about how much they have changed and how much our family has changed just in the last 2 years since we began attending the Latin Mass. They are living a life of grace, and they recognize it.

My oldest each went to 12 years of Catholic school and attended Mass every Sunday at a very "conservative" Novus Ordo church. They are patently living in sin, like 99% of all other Catholics. The grace was just never there.

I've had the same problem as you with older relatives. I thought they'd be thrilled to know that the Latin Mass is available again, but they've been less than enthused. The flip side of that, however, is that Latin Mass parishes are filled with young families and bursting with children. This is a wonderful hope for the future.

BTW, "Tridentine" is not really accurate anyway, so keep on calling it the "Latin Mass."

They are patently living in sin, like 99% of all other Catholics. The grace was just never there.

Arrogance is your stock-in-trade, it appears.

Just what is your outrageous assertion supposed to mean?

I kind of hedged about my kids... the Latin Mass is an hour away and the NO is 5 minutes from our house. That might have something to do with the "balkiness." I have to say that my 13 year old daughter has had her eyes opened lately to the odd stuff that goes on at our NO parish.

We are currently having a parish meeting led by a priest and a nun who wrote a book on "enneagram" prayer. They are "leading us into a deeper prayer life" by teaching "centering prayer" which I had never heard of, but sounded hokey, kind of like TM stuff because you chant a holy word over and over again to become deeper within yourself - sort of like a trance. Yesterday we spent 15 minutes with our palms held open in our laps, eyes closed, imagining ourselves in a garden with Jesus "and now what does Jesus have on... traditional biblical garb or a clean pair of jeans and sweatshirt?" .... "Jesus is now telling you how much He loves you, what words is he using?"... "And now Jesus has to leave. He says to you 'I'm sorry I have to go. I love being with you and I will be back'."

I just sat there looking for a barf bag, but I was the only one... I can't take much more.