[drstevej]

Just a thesis I'm floating for reaction...

Are you fully satisfied with NO masses or are you conflicted by what happens in the majority of masses celebrated in the US?

[american colleen]

Well, in all honesty, I've been to very few NO Masses outside of Massachusetts although I've been to NO Masses in Eurupe. I don't think it would be fair to judge what happens in "the majority of Masses" because I'd be projecting information I am ignorant about.

As long as the priest has the correct intentions (and I believe most all of them do), I have no problem with the NO. Now, my priest recently asked us not to kneel during the Consecration and after Holy Communion and I wasn't nuts about that (personal preference) so last week I attended a different (more reverential) NO Mass.

[american colleen]

If you are "hanging around" at 08:00, 12:00, 19:00 or midnight, EWTN has a Novus Ordo Mass at those times (you can catch it on your computer as they stream live all day, or of course on your local EWTN TV channel). It is the Novus Ordo as intended by Vatican II. It might give you an idea of a reverent Novus Ordo.