Hi all!

I'm a traditional Catholic from Malta, the country where TLMs are de facto prohibited by the Archdiocese.

Hopefully I will get in touch with fellow Catholics in this forum and manage to bring the SSPX or SSPX-SO over Malta on a permanent basis. Otherwise it's so lonely here  :sad:

You can find news from Malta here:

http://pro-tridentina-malta.blogspot.com/

A blessed Sunday to all!

Hi Tridentine MT!  Glad to have you here.  Hope you enjoy the forum! :smile:

It looks promising after a preliminary investigation  :detective: .

Hello all!

My name is Ashley, I live in Massachusetts, and I've been attending the TLM for just about 2 years now. It's been the best 2 years of my life. I am constantly looking to deepen my knowledge of tradition and God. I hope to find many good discussions here!

God bless!

Hello! Welcome aboard. :)

Greetings,

I've been a bit skittish about posting due to some unseemly behavior by a member of the forum. I've been forum stalked in the past and I hope to avoid the perpetrators of such antics here.

Regarding my background, I'm a lapsed Protestant investigating the Catholic faith. I've come to believe that the Catholic faith is the true faith, but that the Church has been infiltrated by nefarious forces. I believe the papacy has been compromised for years now. I'm not sure if a baptism in the new rite is valid or not. I'm here as an investigator, seeking counsel and edification.

Hi there everybody! I'm a 22-year-old college junior who has decided over the past couple of months that it's time for me to finally give in and join the church. I had tried to make the leap twice before, once even making it to some RCIA 'classes' where I was living at the time, but something about this summer has been quite different. I think I was finally ready to submit my mind and will to something outside of myself...

I started out at the main NO parish in town, even attending daily for two weeks, then as I started to read more about the crisis in the church I began devouring any traditionalist material I could get my hands on--Bp. Williamson, Fr. Milch, and ChurchMilitant on YouTube, the excerpts from Iota Unum on SSPXAsia, dozens of articles at SSPX, CMRI, Tradition in Action, etc. (even some stuff by the Dimonds, I'm very sorry to say :P). This has led me to the diocesan TLM which has been leaps and bounds ahead of anything I've experienced before. Right now I'm digging in to Griff Ruby's book and also some devotional classics like Preparation for Death, Introduction to the Devout Life, etc.

My most recent move was to fire off an e-mail to CMRI asking for more information about catechesis for adults and about the CMRI and independent parishes in my area. Anyone who is familiar with that aspect I would love to hear advice!

I've been lurking for a week or two but it was time to jump in, I guess. Anyway, greetings!  :cool:

Griff Ruby's book is most excellent.  It filled in a lot of gaps for me when I was becoming familiar with tradition.  It is good to see the truth find some people who are humble, sincere are open to it and seek it.  I have a theory that it always does.

As I never introduced myself properly upon registration, below is a brief account of my conversion to the Catholic Church which I posted on another forum and now reproduce here.

It goes like this: I've been a conspiracy nut for a long time and various speculations (or should I say calumnies) surrounding the Catholic Church are a prominent fixture of many conspiracy theories. One such popular theory postulates that the Jesuits control world politics and are the originators of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ. I was researching some similar claims made by a protestant anti-Catholic on youtube when I stumbled across a Bishop Williamson video on Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ in the Catholic Church. I was immediately struck by his tone and manner. He was rational and logical, and I'd never been exposed to rational Christianity before, only Protestant "get ready for the rapture" loons and sentimental Anglican or Novus-Ordo types. I was intrigued and scoured youtube for more of his material. Suddenly, his arguments, the things he was saying just made total sense of what I'd learnt beforehand in my days as a conspiracy-nut - what I'd learnt about the Satanic mass media, 9/11, the role of the Jews, Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ - everything. In all the years that I had been engrossed in researching these things, nothing I'd ever encountered even came close to adequately explaining just why this was all happening, but Bishop Williamson's arguments - or, you could say, the Catholic interpretation of history - brought all the pieces together. But let me be more specific...

Now, everything I knew about history before finding the Catholic faith had been filtered through a lens of Darwinian evolutionism, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Marxist historiography courtesy of our cultural overlords. But it never made sense to me that all of the currents of human history are driven by simple biological imperatives and economic factors, and that we people are merely swept along by these currents. Bishop Williamson's characterisation of history in one of his talks as defined not by economic factors, not by politics, not by biological imperatives, but primarily by religion was extremely compelling even without further elaboration on his part. Even though I still identified at this point as an agnostic, I could not reasonably deny that, if one assumes that the Biblical accounts are true, the Catholic interpretation of history as being driven by a head-on clash between Christ and his Church on the one hand, and Satan, represented by the Jews, Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ and their allies on the other made alot more sense than any of the Atheist historiography ever could, regardless of what premises you assume as fact beforehand.

It was primarily these historical arguments that drove me to research the Catholic faith in more depth, but not solely. In the process of watching these videos I was exposed to Catholic tradition and discovered that what I hitherto believed to be Catholicism, the hippy lovey-dovey globalist-relativist nonsense I'd seen from Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI, was really not Catholicism at all. It was knowing that which compelled me to discover real Catholicism. From there I plunged into almost incessant research on Catholic teaching and apologetics. I bought dozens of books on the subject, locked myself away at every opportunity to focus on serious reading, and very quickly I discovered that I was no longer agnostic. Soon after that I found myself Catholic. Not based on my feelings, but based on reason and faith.

Hi everyone. I'm Anna Maria.

Hello Shin.