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If you ask why Catholics became traditional Catholics, very few would say they became traditional Catholics because of the various "Novus Ordo is invalid" arguements that you see presented all over the internet. No, the vast majority started out as Catholics that went to their local neighborhood parish. They faithfully went to their neighborhood parish for years, and put up with the OCP hymnal, put up with weak preaching, but started to get fed up with the fact too much of the sacred was lost. In many cases, these people, parents saw what CCD clases were doing to their childrens faith, how their children were taught all religions were equal(or somthing close to that) while their children were taught little about centreal church dogmas such as the Eucharist. These Catholics were often insulted and belittled by clergy and self appointed laity when they wanted more traditional church hymns, when they objected to what their children were being taught in CCD. These faithful Catholics, after often many years of putting up with this did what they had to do to preserve their faith and more importantly, the faith of their children. They seeked out the parish' that had the most traditional liturgy, and parish' that stressed authentic church teachings. In some cases, it was the local indult mass, in some cases, its a quasi traditional Novus Ordo, in the case of San Antonio and Fort Worth TX, its the Anglican use parish, but in the so many areas that these options were not avilable, they went to the SSPX.

My choices in a small town are limited too but I still don't think I'd leave to join a sect that is in schism, even though the Masses have been judged to be valid but only if attended with the right spirit.

I work in my parish and I know that the priests don't have time to oversee all that the teachers teach. I am very traditional and I want the children to know the Truth of Catholicism, and so I teach. I have a book, approved by the various commitees and the diocese, I teach the Catholic faith and ignore the the fluff stuff.

I know I talk in circles but what upsets me about the Trads is their lack of faith in the Holy Spirit. For the most part they are intelligent and try to be very pious but they have lost hope in God and His ability to protect the Church.