There's an often divisive issue in Catholicism of which Mass is good, the Novus Ordo or the Tridenteen Mass. Here are my thoughts, potentially hurtful to both sides. I have only attended a Novus Ordo, and I've never felt more alive in worship; that said...I've never had the chance to attend the traditional Latin Mass. If I did have the chance, I would take it in a heartbeat to experience something so ancient and beautiful.
Were the Vatican to ban Novus Ordo tomorrow, I would happily go to the TLM. If the Vatican were to ban Communion on the Hand tomorrow, I would happily receive every Sunday upon my tongue.
The people who say they would quit the Church over having to listen to a Mass be spoken in Latin, do not belong to the Church. The liturgy, the Eucharist...those are the important things. Ditching because of disagreements is the basis of Protestant thought; to the point I know Presbyterians who call their sect the "Split Ps". Because if they disagree they split into new churches.
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