I grew up on the Tridentine Mass; I find it, like Scotch, to be a wonderful thing, on occasion. I suppose it just depends on how one views the Celebration of the Eucharist. I support anyone being able to attend a Tridentine Mass, if they so choose. The problem is, not every city is going to have a critical mass to justify it.
As to the vocations to the FSSP, it's relative. There's one or two FSSP seminaries in the country versus some 50 Novus Ordo seminaries. I'm just wondering where these guys are going to find work. There aren't that many strictly FSSP parishes; I know of none in Dallas or Fort Worth. Even in a diocese like Lincoln, there's only one. I hope these men are learning the Novus Ordo as well.
That might be the case now. In another ten or fifteen years, when the many young children that are being brought up in the Tridentine rite today are grown with families of their own, and as the traditional Mass becomes better known, it will start to change.
As to the vocations to the FSSP, it's relative. There's one or two FSSP seminaries in the country versus some 50 Novus Ordo seminaries.
I don't think this is really a fair comparison. The FSSP is extrmemely young still- and I doubt if any of those 50 seminaries you speak of are overflowing the way the FSSP's seminary is. This is niether here nor there anyway, because my point is simply that the Tridentine Mass is very adpet at fostering vocations.
There aren't that many strictly FSSP parishes; I know of none in Dallas or Fort Worth.
Do you live in Dallas? Here is the info. for the FSSP in Dallas: Mater Dei Community, Fr. Joseph Valentine, FSSP Chaplain, 6228 Winton St. Dallas, TX 75214 tel (214) 887-8696 fax (214) 887-8717 Chapel of Carmelite Sisters 600 S. Flowers Ave. Dallas, Texas (Loop 12 to Jefferson East) Sunday 9:30 a.m.; 11:30 a.m. St. Thomas Aquinas Church 6306 Kenwood Ave. Dallas, Texas Monday-Friday 6:30 a.m. Saturday 8:00 a.m.
I'm just wondering where these guys are going to find work
From what I've understood, the supply of FSSP priests still has not caught up with the demand as of yet- there are more Bishops wanting to invite them into their diocese than there are FSSP priests to go around. I doubt that anytime soon we'll see FSSP priests being shipped off to say Novus Ordo Masses because there's no need for them. This movement is still very young, and I think its impact on the Church will grow for some time to come.