Author Topic: I dont know if I will ever attend Mass again... (Read 3762 times)

crossbro · « **Reply #20 on:** May 20, 2014, 11:11:04 PM »

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If crossbro was attending the Novus Ordo, he should not return to "church".

If crossbro was attending an indult Mass, he should not return to "church".

If crossbro was attending a traditional Mass with certainly validly ordained priests, he is sewing the seeds of his own destruction.

(Note that I did not say anything about whether it was a sedevacantist or non-sedevacantist chapel.)

If the Mass is what is bothering you, then you are falling into hell rapidly.

If the sermon is what is bothering you because the priest uses it as a "political battlefield", then leave after the Gospel and return for the Creed. The sermon is not part of the Mass and isn't where you receive the Graces of the Mass.

I was attending daily Mass at a local NO parish and the Cathedral- I was attending Sunday Mass at a diocese TLM mission.

crossbro · « **Reply #21 on:** May 20, 2014, 11:13:31 PM »

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It doesn't matter how you feel. Get your will together and go to Mass.

It does matter how I feel when the feeling is that by going to Mass I am supporting something that is not legitimate. My presence leaves the impression I stand behind Francis.

crossbro · « **Reply #22 on:** May 20, 2014, 11:18:39 PM »

If I am going back it is because there is something there that tells me that it is where God wants me to be, period.

When I am told to go back I will go back, if I am not told then I won't go back.

There is no despair or lack of faith. I certainly feel that my pessimism towards this shell of a Church is legitimate.

ThomisticPhilosopher · « **Reply #23 on:** May 20, 2014, 11:19:35 PM »

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Last year I attended 400 masses and went to confession 40 times.

This year my last Mass was on Jan 30 and I have no desire or urge to return to Church.

My recommendation for folks in your situation is to find a local traditional Eastern Catholic liturgy. Its eschatological conversation between Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with the Blessed Mother weaving in and out, and absent the politics of Latin Traditionalism, is often rejuvenating spiritually.

I really don't see what is so political about going to mass? I have gone to several SSPX chapels and I have never heard any "political" sermons, ever. It has been over 16 years, the sermons are solid based on the Fathers of the church, educational, anything but political.

I really don't understand why everyone cares about who they sit right next to and what they believe. If you have the faith that is all that matters, sure we might disagree over the current man dressed in white but no one disagrees in rejecting everything he says and does. So as far as I am concerned, SSPX are SV'ist that have not come to understand their own principles. Its okay, sometimes it takes sometimes to come to self-realization or that Eureka moment where you realize you were "there all along."

I would love to be able to attend Easter Liturgies. Especially one that has no Latinizations, a priest that is actually not "orthodox" for all intents and purposes (more often then not, they are a bunch of heretics that have nothing of Catholic belief, surprises me why they have not left the church). The ones that are really bad about all this are the Melkites, I have heard several "Catholic" melkite priest go on Orthodox Radio (yes I listen to them one in a while to be aware what our fellow heretics are up to) pretty much talk about how they retain belief in the truthfulness of the Orthodox claim etc...

TKGS · « **Reply #24 on:** May 21, 2014, 07:12:05 AM »

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It could just be a temptation of the devil to get you to lose your faith,

I did not say I lost my faith. My faith is just fine.

My sister says the same thing. So do her adult children. Many of my wife's relatives would say this as well, even though virtually none of them know what the inside of a church (any church) looks like.

And they live as if there is no God.

Those who claim that their "faith is just fine", they just don't go to church are doing nothing but lying to themselves as they descend further and further into the depths of hell.

Unfortunately, crossbro, this is the truth as hard as it is to read.