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Kevin Peters's avatar

This is an excellent piece I will be sharing with many family and friends. I discovered the traditional Mass and faith at the same time through the FSSP, and when I did I immediately experienced a change in all aspects of my life - I believed differently, I prayed and worshiped differently, I lived differently. This is a rupture I knew to be true internally, even though for a time I remained within the structures of the conciliar synodal church, I knew I did not belong but it took some time, and the light of the Holy Ghost, to not be afraid of being branded with a scarlet S of sedevacantist. Thank you for this excellent article pointing out the more important part of Monatagna’s reporting, and for all of the other excellent articles and essays

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Michael Boharski's avatar

It is extremely difficult to make those who attend a permitted TLM to understand and accept your points that I totally agree with. This I think stems from two main lines of reasoning. First, they want to remain in "communion" with the Church and are not convinced or unwilling to believe that the Conciliar Church is not the Catholic Church at least in part. This is predicated on the universal teaching pre-VII that there is no salvation outside of the Church and one must be within the visible Church. The second is that they hope against hope that, even though they agree with your points, somehow, someway when enough Catholics both priests and laity are exposed to the TLM and the contrast with the NO they will choose pre-VII Catholicism and right the ship so to speak. Unfortunately they do not recognize the insidious nature of Modernism and its ability to render this strategy null and void. Nor are they willing to admit that only a miniscule fraction of Catholics are attracted to the TLM and the overwhelming majority are in favor of the NO and liberalization of the Church.

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