In the confessional the priest admonishes you and stating you must attend every Sunday NewMass at your local diocesan Church, while your confessional priest and his monastery has walled itself off and resisted their local diocesan bishop. Double standard here? Should I follow and obey my confessional priest?

This makes no sense whatsoever. Are you certain that you did not somehow get his directions perfectly backwards?

I find it very hard to believe that any true independent priest would tell someone to go to the NO ever let alone every Sunday.  It makes me wonder what the real status is of this Abbey. I wonder if things have changed.


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Imagine how I felt in the confessional while this priest told me this! Shocked, stunned.

What does "Are you certain that you did not somehow get his directions perfectly backwards" mean?

It means are you certain that the priest admonished you stating you must NOT attend every Sunday NewMass at your local diocesan Church?

I am very certain of that!

Then it makes no sense, you can't listen that priest's admonition.

Yeah, I would feel the same way.  Then report it to both directories.  Hopefully, others will do the same going forward. If this location is not listed in these directories, then that will keep other Catholics from experiencing the same.

That is if this is not a troll post.

This is not a troll post. I take this very seriously and it’s disturbing.

You might also report this to Traditio (and Lux Vera)

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I second this.

When asked if they were in communion with the bishop he stated No adding all our priests were properly ordained. Then I came back stating "Its' good to hear you are not in communion with the diocesan bishop to which he replied  "We don't revolt. We resist". With that statement the decision was made to take two hour journey.

We did not speak or discuss on who ordained them, lineage, or which rite. I felt that would come at a later time once we had met.

Well, use this episode as a learning experience. Next time you know to discuss these things in greater detail , and have him clarify things you might not fully understand.

 If it were me, a priest admonishing me in confession that I must attend the new mass every Sunday means he is not a priest I ever want to go to for confession again - or anything else for that matter - whether he is supposed to be a trad priest or not.

I now have two new Roman Missals, one from Baronius Press and The New Roman Missal by Father Lasance which I will never use again for there are no Traditional Roman Catholic Church's near me. The Abbey was my last hope. I will sell the two missals for half what I paid for them.

Honestly you don't sound like you're under 30.

Nevertheless, your whining, drama, and defeatism would be more expected coming from a 25 year old.

So you're giving up on the Tridentine Mass. Where does the giving up stop? Are you giving up on pleasing God? your soul? Eternal salvation?

God commanded us to worship Him *as He desires to be worshipped*. Not just "however we feel like it". Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, founded a Church and a religion to worship God the way HE wants to be worshipped.

Vatican II tried to destroy that Faith, that Church, and that worship by making the Catholic Church protestant. We can't approve of that, or participate in that, without offending God. So that leaves TRADITIONAL CATHOLICISM -- doing our utmost best to find a Tridentine Mass to A) please and worship God and B) stay in the State of Grace and C) ultimately to save our souls.

You sound like you're in the last 1/3 of your life -- you might want to be careful about throwing out God's lifeline of salvation -- Mass and the sacraments.

How do the Boomers say it? You need to man up, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, etc. Can't you move? Travel? There are Tridentine Masses all over the USA -- which are nothing like the Indult abominations you have described.

If you're alive, there SHOULD be hope. Does your wife rule you and your household? That's unfortunate. But even if so, couldn't you do something? Maybe just tell her "we're moving, and that's it". What's the worst that could happen? Would she really divorce you? Aren't you retired and your kids grown anyhow? At all costs, you really need to move somewhere where you could attend the Tridentine Mass, the true Mass, the Mass of All Time, at least occasionally.

And if your wife is NOT like that, great! That was a worst-case scenario. So it's just about your job then? Mere money? Pieces of green paper? What is that compared to your eternal soul? I know, I know -- those green pieces of paper mean food, housing, comfort, security, power, pleasure -- again I ask, what are those things compared to the ETERNAL DESTINY of your soul? Your soul is going to live forever whether you like it or not. Of critical importance is HOW YOU WILL SPEND THAT ETERNITY.

I will tell you this: if you "make it to the finish line", staying married to a dominating woman who refuses to let you move where the Tridentine Mass is offered, it will be NO CONSOLATION for you in hell if you lose your soul. There will be no "bragging rights" that "At least I never got divorced". The devils won't "tip their hat" or give you any "props" or respect for the simple fact of having managed to avoid divorce. What I'm saying is, the ONLY thing that matters is your soul's salvation. Not your wife's happiness, not your convenience, not your earthly happiness, and not what your friends/family/kids think of you.

If you're still here on earth, still alive, you should have SOME agency or choice about what you do, where you go, what your priorities are. YOU decide your priorities. YOU have Free Will, and will be judged by God accordingly.

I would humbly suggest, along with all the saints, that you live your life as if GOD ALONE MATTERS. Put God first, and you won't ever regret it.