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But you can understand, sometimes, what drives some to embrace the Traditional Mass. When week after week or month after month something new is introduced and you never hear the word "sin" let alone the word "Catholic" in sermons or in bulletins, you wonder what it is to be a Catholic Christian and not some form of Protestant. If I didn't read on my own, I'd have to wonder, besides believing in the Real Presence, what makes us Catholic if all I had was the parish priest.

I know I live in a liberal part of the country (Kennedy country) but it is terribly hard to educate your kids so they understand the faith... what you teach them is one part of it, what they see in the parish and at Mass is a bigger part. So many times you feel you are at odds because there seems to be no correlation between the two.

I wouldn't join a group that was not in union with Rome, but sometimes I honestly wonder if most "mainstream" Catholic parishes are with Rome. And I can understand and sympathize those that feel so jettisoned by their parish that they feel there is no other option but to join a Traditionalist parish.

But you can understand, sometimes, what drives some to embrace the Traditional Mass.

I'm afraid I don't. Maybe I've been lucky in the Novus Ordo observance in my 40 years since Vatican II, but I have no desire to ever celebrate the Tridentine Liturgy again. Ever. And I won't, if I can help it.

But, for those who wish to, bishops should generously provide it.