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Hello all.

I am a trad-sympathetic Catholic, but I think God has planned some "avant-garde" aspects to my faith while remain strictly loyal to the Church and Christ. I don't think I can consider myself a traditionalist. But I can say I'm a "Real-Presence-in-Communion-ist" and a "salvationist".

Officially, I've been entered into the Church this Easter. The call came quietly last year on May 30, 2025. Not much can be said. No overwhelming experience. Just a subtle push to read the Bible(NT) that day, so it was Matthew and maybe a little, I cannot remember. Now, as I was 20-25 years out the "internet faith" I had, I really forgot a lot of things but at the time, I still had a little residual "trad-exclusivity" regarding finding a TLM parish. Ultimately, I was advised to go to my nearest parish, which I heeded.(Later, I would come to realize that this "avoid because exclusivity" was an erroneous attitude, which many of you may object to). Anyway, OCIA was pretty much going through the US Catechism.
To note, the choice of confirmation saint had a bizarrely impersonal "force" telling me to be Joan of Arc even though other figures like Gemma Galgani had much actual sentimental impact. It is strange that for all the facts of Joan, I still have yet to have an inkling of "sentiment" or feeling.

The Vigil Mass though, proved itself...more than anticipated. Having been baptized as a child in the mid-90s by an unknown past with my mother remembering clearly doing it, but not having the paperwork, I was put through as a catechumen without a conditional baptism. No confession either. So the consecrated[by a N.O priest] Eucharist was consumed, and the very, very real effects of sacrilege manifested. The two facts leads to a bipolar result: I have no choice but to be both against modernism and yet also against those who cast doubt on a N.O priest's Holy Orders. Failure to do so would result in this fact being presented at the judgment at death. I have not had the Eucharist since, and I have noted notorious psychological changes in myself.

The story goes a bit further than that.
My original introduction was back about 20-25 years ago when I came across some mix of trad Cath content and Marcel Lefebvre at some point. I came across Fisheaters back then, spent time on the boards, but never got as far as going to a parish, although I went to a then-available diocesan TLM in Downtown DC(no longer there). So the time at Fisheaters granted me some residual knowledge from participating on the message boards.

Inbetween, at around 2022, I got a "self-education" in the field of American law. This is going to distinguish me from laypersons, as I had been forced to refine my reasoning skills and I got a taste of 'preparation' for judgment.
In addition, I will provide the logical framework that guides my judgment, which is not complicated.
The logical statement "If (A and B and C), then S" and its contrapositive "It not S, then not A or B or C" form the framework I make determinations. Avoiding fallacies of association or fallacy because of origin is important for me to make fair, objective, and just judgments. The contrapositive formulation is important when evaluating ideologies outside the Church. Something that does not save may still have a truthful point or practice.

As for what I attended, it's been quite "as the Spirit goes". Right now I attend multiple Masses on Sunday. The parish Mass, then I might travel to the SSPX Mass 1 hour away. Or the FSSP at a different but just-as-long travel(this week). Even one time, God put circuмstances that had me go to an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist church once(but I went to other Masses).
Like on Sunday, it was
Parish
FSSP in Baltimore
Mass at Different Parish in County
Then yet another Mass at yet another different Parish in County('rock mass')

And I came across this board because of a Congregation of the SSPV location near Baltimore, and there was a thread here.

In general, for most Catholics, you would be correct. But as I said, sometimes God has a few be an exception to the norm.
The reason I went was only because someone put the card to the place on my car windshield. The valuable things I took was the list of people on a "prayer list" at the location; I intend to enroll at least a few in perpetual Masses. I also gleaned some facts about the pastor and many in the congregation that I would not have obtained without an in-person conversation: that most of the people there were lapsed Catholics. Thus, the spiritual danger is far greater for the people there than if they were purely ignorant as more common Protestants are. The other purpose is most likely for me to see how the enemy conducts battle, and how much prep is need on my part. Very clearly, command of the Bible is one thing I have to correct. And I have to be well-versed in the King James to engage with these King James Only types even though it technically isn't Catholic.
I did not go to there at the exclusion of the obligation for Mass. It was parish Mass, different Parish Mass, Baptist guy, the 5pm Mass at "home Parish", then the 8pm "rock Mass" on that Sunday. I don't even "like" the Mass in the sentimental sense but yet I go.

The "wind" also work this way. At Christmas I went to the SSPX Mass. Mentioning that location a few weeks later got me banned from r/Catholicism on Reddit even though I mentioned two diocesan locations. Of course it had a purpose. This revived some of the old pro-trad inclinations I had in the past.

I must note that I have apparently been granted a great degree of immunity to "corruption". That is why I have already read the Satanic Bible and noted something. There is a continuum of compliance with Christ's mercy and forgiveness. The Satanism explicitly rejects Christ. But the majority of humanity "selectively enforces" mercy and forgiveness. But Christ's call to mercy and forgiveness is absolute, that even the worst, most hated of sinners...one must desire his salvation. God has made me spent a lot of money on books, some of it "intercepting" evil books by traitorous Catholics. Traitors like Charles E. Curran, Elizabeth A. Johnson, John T. Noonan. Noonan especially, was one of the most keen minds and great forces that was pro-contraception. Seeing Noonan's writings, I had to contemplate what fierce forces Paul VI was having to fight quietly and not seen from the public before Humane Vitae. 

I must also mention I have gleaned a message from experiences that I'm not to die on my own terms, and probably not comfortably either.