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The only word that consistently pops into my mind whenever I think of the N.O. Mass is 'silly'. I still have a mental image from the back of the church seeing the entire congregation shaking hands, hugging, waving, and smiling at the 'sign of peace'. I can remember thinking to myself "What would a person who is here praying for a recently deceased spouse/son/daughter, grieving, feel at this moment? What if he/she could not dredge up the silly phony smile that is demanded of him/her by the silly priest at this exact moment?". The N.O. Mass is not a Mass. It is a silly communal ho-down. I can also still picture the little girls carrying the 'gifts', the lady with the miniskirt reading the epistle of St. Paul, the silly old ladies dishing out the Hosts like potato chips and making the sign of the cross over little kids, "On Eagles Wings",..........Sorry Howie, I got carried away there. I forgot, it's a valid Mass and the TLM is not really needed.

It is a silly communal ho-down.

Clapping and applause is the latest craze in the ho-down Mass. You clap after baptisms are performed in the middle of the Mass. You clap for the First Communicants, you clap for newlywed couples at their nupital Mass, you clap for converts to the Catholic church at the Midnight Easter Mass, you clap for yourselves when the parish exceeds it's financial goals.

I wonder who, on Calvary, clapped at about 3:00 PM on Good Friday in 33 A.D.

I think of the N.O. Mass is 'silly'

See, this is the elitism of the trads. You guys just cannot resist criticizing a valid Mass that is attended by the overwhelming number of Catholics in the world today.

Nobody here from the NO side is ridiculing any aspect of the Tridentine Mass, yet the trads jump offside at any opportunity to trash the Mass we attend.

This is what we've come to expect from the Oh-so-Catholic traditionalists.