Wow! This IS getting out of hand. Viva AND WorldsAway, I think you’re missing the point! Our Lord wants you (plural) to work on replacing your predominant faults with the corresponding virtues. His timing is perfect, just at the beginning of Lent. Replace anger and rash judgment with forbearance and mildness, harsh words with gentle, temper with meekness, disdain with charity, rudeness with being polite, disrespect with respect, condemnation with forgiveness, and so on. Review last Sunday’s Epistle, I Corinthians 13. Just DO as St. Paul says. Never mind your “feelings.” Do as instructed and your feelings will eventually follow. Don’t give up until the thought of one another no longer stirs up wrath. It sounds as if you are both of a choleric temperament, so Our Lord has given you a Lenten challenge. You may never be “besties.” That’s okay. Read Romans 12:18-20.
When God brings disagreeable people into our lives, it’s to make us holier! 
May you have a fruitful Lent!
~ Seraphina

Thank you for saying this.

Watching Mass at home is needed at times. 

We aren’t traditional Catholics either. 

Before Vatican II, the true Catholic Church tried to warn Catholics about certain tv programming and even shows, theatre, dances.  It’s why the church is in crisis today.    I guess Catholics were Amish or puritan like before Vatican II. 

So many people who attend any chapels are holier than thou and dressed like frumps but during the week while  they dress like hookers at weddings. Its hypocrisy.

many times you are in church and you can’t see because maybe a tall man is in the pew in front of you but I can read my missal and hear the priest.  So what is wrong with speakers for the overflow? 

television, marijuana, overeating, cell phones etc can be false idols. 

Actually, speakers for the overflow is a good idea. I don't think that a TV is really needed, when we know how to follow along in a missal, or not even follow along. We can tell by the words being said by the priest as to where he is in the course of Mass. Maybe, for newbies to the TLM, a TV is helpful, but they really shouldn't be the basis for a norm. 

I have a TV and watch occasionally, but it would be better if I didn't. I mostly watch old movies and Hallmark-type stuff. 

I recently read an article about the problem with TV. It's not only that so much programing contains bad things, but that most TV shows don't depict the fact that many Americans still have some sort of religious beliefs. On TV, the characters almost never have any religious beliefs, and that does not represent the reality for many people. But still we want to watch TV. I think it's a way to de-stress and forget about real life. But it can also move us away from growing in holiness, if we depend on it. It can be the same with the computer, though we can better control what we view on a computer. Just my 2 cents worth. 

Thanks? I read some threads on CI and comment. I don’t do social media of any type like Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, or whatever. It’s a bunch of gossip, self-promotion, bullying, plus if you value your privacy, it’s no good. I live-stream Masses, look at crafts, sewing, cooking, nature, sermons, conferences, the weather forecast, briefly scan the “news.” I use email to correspond with a very few people, and to get basic information, such as, what time does Farm and Home Supply close tonight?  Oh, and I’ve purchased items like books, a Rosary, an office chair for my nephew’s birthday, etc. That’s the extent of it. In fact, it’s time to sign off because the store closes at 7:00 and I need to make another stop en route.
Add AMDG to your list. She’s into sewing and on the women only thread. I probably missed a few people. There are men who shouldn’t be online, either!

I forgot about AMDG. Absolutely she gets to keep her Internet card too. And Jen51.

I forgot about AMDG. Absolutely she gets to keep her Internet card too. And Jen51.

Keep Soubirous, too.

Put the rest of us on view-only mode, while retaining the Women Only forum.

I like Fr. Feeney's comment: "To have a TV in your living room is like having a iw in your living room."

Of course I was raised on iw-tv and iw-movies.

I like Fr. Feeney's comment: "To have a TV in your living room is like having a iw in your living room."

Of course I was raised on iw-tv and iw-movies.

Maybe TA because I’m old, I’ve no idea what is iw?

https://homework.study.com/explanation/what-year-was-the-letter-j-invented.html

...Until the year 1524, there was no letter 'J' in the alphabet. The letter 'J' was originally the same letter as 'I. ' The 'father of the letter J' is Gian Giorgio Trissino, an Italian author and grammarian who lived from 1478 to 1550.
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Now I know where the J comes from. I wonder when the Latin dictionaries adopted it? 

IESU, miserere nobis. +

I don't like cameras/ photographers in a church. But then, look at Padre Pio...cameras were basically in his face at his last mass. 
Interesting that I saw two newscasts , interviews with Sspx priests, and sure enough, the interviews were held in the nave...It's like the pagan media want to insult us catholics by denying that there anything holy in a Catholic church: ie. No Real Presence in the Tabernacle. Chipping away at the holiness/sacred... 
Yup! iw doodedit.