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Matthew K Michels, OblSB's avatar

I used to be a parishioner at a FSSP parish. I am now a parishioner at a "Novus Ordo parish" (as they say), and I rarely attend the TLM now. That's just been a natural shift for me, and I still have a deep love and attachment to the TLM, the FSSP, and the ICKSP, etc. and so I like to claim that I still have skin in the game despite not being a TLM-regular (which I think actually bolsters me imo)

The continuing rise in parishioner headcount and seminarians is a sign that the TLM is not going to go away, despite TC aiming to effectively crush it to extinction. The majority of the people who attend the TLM are not those who lived prior to V2 and are clinging to their own nostalgia. These are people who have lived their lives post-V2, often for many years in "Novus Ordo parishes" (as they call them), and actually gravitate to the TLM and these fraternities out of devotion, joy, evangelisitc zeal, and love for Jesus and his Church.

This is not the 1970s (when the mindset of many Catholics-in-pews was "ok well I guess this is what we're doing now"), and the laity are not dopes who are going to let themselves be herded with no resistance. Whether you agree it's right or not, that's the reality.

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Evan Cowie's avatar

Thanks for the article! I regularly attend a TLM in Ocala served by FSSP priests, and I have a friend who's a seminarian with them. The priests I've known were fantastic, very dedicated and very pastoral. I've got nothing but good things to say about the Fraternity, and I'm hopeful that they'll continue to grow!

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