Going To My First Mass In The Extraordinary Form

[Veritas]

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Are dresses and veils required for females?

Also, it is "Altar" not "Alter".

Thanks for the advice.

[Deus te Amat]

I attended a TLM for the first time this last weekend. This thread would have been helpful!

It was sooo beautiful. I followed along in a borrowed missal until the Canon... I couldn't locate it. I was lost for the rest of the Mass, but I got more out of just watching, anyway, at least this time.

I also wore a mantilla. It made me feel ... little... humble in front of God. The lady that made it is putting a clip in it and is going to mail it to me when I go to college- where I plan to attend the extrodinary form on Sundays.

I wish I had known about not saying Amen at communion. I said it, and the priest kinda paused..... oops.

Let us know what you think!

[TeresaBenedicta]

Wow...

I'm not sure how to put the experience into words.

They provided us with a little booklet, so I was able to follow along fairly easily. I love the prayers! They're so beautiful.

It was just really, really awesome.

I'm thankful for the heads up on kneeling to receive holy Communion-- a few people did so, but many did not. There were instructions in the booklet that said to kneel and to receive on the tongue. I guess some people didn't catch that memo.

I loved the fluid movement of the altar boys. Seeing the Biretta in use and the Maniple was cool too (I had never heard of or seen a maniple until yesterday, when someone showed me a picture of it).

Over-all it was just really beautiful. Much more reverent, I think, than the typical N.O. Mass (although, I have seen a few N.O. Masses that were even more reverent than this TLM).

I wonder if I hadn't been to so many N.O. Masses if I would've been able to follow along as well as I could or if I would've really understood what the Mass is, though. When the Tridentine was the ordinary Mass, did lay people know and understand that Mass at all? Did they have the resources to understand the Mass?

Hmm.

Yes, I loved it. I'd like to go a few more times to really get a feel for it, though.

[littleflower+JMJ]

this is a very awesome form of the mass that I have really enjoyed! I'm glad more people are experiencing it!

[daytondog]

While the ordinary form of the mass is perfectly acceptable and legitimate (No matter what the SSPX says), the extraordinary form is the way the mass was intended. I try to attend all my masses in the extraordinary form. Thank God the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter has a chapel down the street where we celebrate the entire traditional liturgy according to the 1962 rites. Mass seven days a week!
The mass will seem strange, and almost foreign at first. Far more kneeling than you've ever done. You definetlty need a missal. When you enter the church sometimes they have the missals set out somewhere for parishioners to use during the mass. So look out for one because it will help you to follow along. But also remember, many of the words for the priest that are listed in the missal you won't hear because he is up at the alter with his back turn, or because he has to say it in a low voice. So don't freak out when you struggle to follow along in the missal either. Once you become familiar with the extraordinary mass and you read the english translation in the missal, you will see how similiar it is to the ordinary mass and how the ordinary mass is clear based upon the extraordinary form. Pope Benedict has made an effort to bring the extraordinary form back (Summorum Pontificum) as a way to connect it back to the ordinary form, probably in an attempt to help make the ordinary form more sacred, as so many parishes have abused the mass and Protestanized it. You will see that the extraordinary form is probably going to be more "sacred" than most ordinary masses you've ever been to. He wants the sacred practices (such as recieve communion kneeling and on the tongue for example) that were a part of regular Catholic liturgy until liberals after Vatican II tried to get rid of them and deprive the Catholic flock of these treasures, to be returned to the ordinary form, and by making the extraordinary form as readily available as the ordinary form, the Pope I think hopes to accomplish this.
Plus, once you go to a high mass in the extraordinary form, you'll think to yourself, "Wait a second this is the Catholicism that I see all the time in the movies, like the Godfather. Why the hell would anyone ever want to get rid of something this beautiful. Why was I deprived of this?"
As they say, it is the most beautiful thing this side of heaven.