Oh, nonsense.
No, you do not need to change Rites to simply assist at Mass there, even sign up as a parishioner, and even receive the Sacraments. They are more than willing to give the Sacraments (including Baptism, Confirmation, and Matrimony) to those who join their parish even without switching Rites, though they would require the change for you to receive Holy Orders.
Unless it's the Maronite Rite, it's utterly absurd to claim that it's "no better than the Novus Ordo". But even with the Maronites you can find some better chapels. Byzantine / Ruthenian, Melkite, and Ukrainian Rites are typically just fine ... even if the Maronite has in places gone off the rails, since they've always been somewhat Romanized (for better, or now, for worse). Are the people who go there liberal/Modernist? Yes, though less so than the Novus Ordites, and ... you don't think that any Latin Rite Catholic Church in the 1940s and 1950s was thoroughly infested with Modernists? They absolutely were.
As for the language, most of them offer at least one English Liturgy, the Ruthenians nearly always use English (with an occasional Old Slavonic for nostalgia purposes). Tridentine Masses are offered in Latin ... which the vast majority do not know.
First of all I hit the thumbs up instead of the quote, it definitely was a mistake.
Secondly, of the three parishes I spoke with, thousands of miles apart, my claim that they are "
no better than the NO" is right on.
In ALL THREE the
majority of the women wear pants and
jeans to church.
In ALL THREE the women do NOT cover their head.
In ALL THREE they now stand for the Consecration. (they previously knelt)
In ALL THREE they were instructed during covid to receive under only one kind
IN THE HAND. and in the third diocese the bishop wanted that to continue to be the norm. I didn't ask the other two.
In the Nicene Creed which reads "the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and the Son" in the old church prayer books, "the Son" has been stroked out and in the new prayer books the Son is in brackets. (Does that mean it's optional to mention Him?)
In one church Holy water is not available and the Asperges is only done on Palm Sunday. The other churches have Holy Water.
None of the churches have an absolution much less two but maybe that's just their rite.
People at two of the sites stated that their bishops were definitely trying to copy the changes of Vat II to bring their churches up to modern times in line with Rome as they are in communion with Rome. The third person is new to tradition so doesn't always recognize modernization entering the traditional.
All three did state that much depends on the priest but if the priest's wife is wearing pants it doesn't really matter what he says does it.
My advice to Michaelknoxville would be to park outside the church before a Mass and observe the parishoners going in and you might get some idea of how traditional the parish is. Their dress alone will tell you how much influence the priest has on his flock and how much they actually practice their faith.
Coming from the Novus Ordo to Tradition is a big change so side tracking to the Byzantine would probably add even more uncertainty.
Despite my perceived poor formation I must have retained something from my baptism and or just being born again has shown me the light either way I want to do things right and staying home is not that.
I'm not sure I understand what you meant by "being born again". That phrase usually sends up red flags.
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