Before I became a trad, I went to a NO Monastery in Cullman, Alabama. For a NO Monastery they were pretty orthodox. They used a lot of Latin in the Mass although they do have a table instead of an Altar...but it was a NO place after all.

Would I go there now? Probably not. In fact I can say no. There is a Franciscan Monastery near where I live that is NO but very orthodox. They don't allow people to receive Communion in the paws and they use a paten during Communion. One of the priests there has filled in for our Latin Mass priest and he is very orthodox. I do and have gone there for confession and would do so again. If for some reason the Bishop ever ended our Latin Mass (God forbid!) I would probably go there for Mass...but I would make every attempt to find another Latin Mass first.

 

Isn't there a Traditional monastery in or near Cullman?

I have the opportunity to go on a retreat at a monastery later this month, and am wondering what people have to say about it. It is a novus ordo monastery without the TLM. I went to a retreat before and enjoyed it, and found it to be a spiritual help, and though the novus ordo monasteries are without TLM the monks i met last time were very orthodox. Do you think I ought to go?

How did this become a pilgrimage? Did I miss something? You do know the difference between a retreat and a pilgrimage I hope crossbro. If you don't, you only need to ask.

Anyway, let's know how you go, seeing you seem determined to reject all the wisdom offered here.

Ecclesiasticus 21:18

A man of sense will praise every wise word he shall hear, and will apply it to himself: the luxurious man hath heard it, and it shall displease him, and he will cast it behind his back.

What kind of a monastery are you going to? Trappist? Cistercian? Camaldolese?

Novus Ordo.