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I was an altar boy in the early 1960’s and served at the Traditional Latin Mass, and I never got to serve at a High Mass. We only had the High Mass once a month at our parish, as I recall.

Yet this bitterly anti-Catholic Calvinist from the OPC has a bunch of close relatives who are Catholic, has attended many Masses herself, and was a bridesmaid at three (count ‘em, THREE) Nuptial High Masses?? She also claims to have a better knowledge of the nature and frequency of the Mass readings than the Catholics here who attend every week.

My parents were married in 1951 at a wonderful Catholic parish and they didn't even get a High Mass. It was an exceedingly rare thing.

This is getting more absurd by the minute. I had no idea the simple fact of my participating in three RC weddings would engender so much hostility, anger, resentment and what now looks to be envy on your part.

One of the weddings was the most elaborate, glitzy wedding I've ever attended. The groom's father was in politics. There were seven bridesmaids and seven groomsmen. And if it will make you feel any better, the marriage didn't last. They were divorced five years later (both were Roman Catholic.) And if I told you the reason why they were divorced, you really wouldn't believe me (and I'm not about to say.)

The other two marriages have lasted.

My husband was an altar boy. I'll ask him if he ever served at a high mass.

And I am not "bitterly anti-Catholic."

I am pro-Christianity; pro-Scripture; pro-liberty of conscience; pro-Reformation.