I am fifty years old and converted from the Novus Ordo to Traditionalism in 1990. For me it was an easy transition, as I remembered third grade and the 500lb., guitar playing priest, Fr. Rick. I am sure he meant well, but he loved food too much and was caught up in the liberalism of the age. As the story goes, he was sent to weight camp and packed his suitcase full of Twinkies and other goodies. He died of a heart attack (imagine that!). He may or may not have been a priest, as he was ordained circa 1970.
As for the Latin Mass, I knew, even as a young boy, that there was something innately wrong with the New Mass. My parents met at St. Joseph's Catholic Orphanage in the 1950's, and my mother would recount stories of when she was a young girl, the orphans would have every day the Latin Mass, Benediction, and the rosary. My mother was confirmed by Bishop Sheen. There were, at the time, fifty nuns and five priests residing at the orphanage. Today the orphanage is a non-orphanage; it is a glorified daycare center with no nuns, no priests, and no orphans to speak of. What we have lost!
In '94 I entered St Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Winona, MN, and stayed there until '97. After seminary I continued to pursue philosophy with the goal of teaching. Taking the pay-as-you-go method, I finished my B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Louisville, and then completed my online M.A., Philosophy in 2008. My M.A. work was done through Holy Apostles College and Seminary, which, in my estimation was the most orthodox online M.A. program to be found.
From 2008 to 2018 I taught philosophy as an adjunct at various colleges in the Louisville, KY, area. I reluctantly got away from teaching. My primary employer wanted me to teach online, something that I was not willing to do. My last year of full-time teaching, in 2017, I taught eight classes at two colleges. How much do you think I made?...14.9K. I taught the following courses: Intro. Philosophy, Ethics, Logic, US History, World History, Controversial Views of American History: from WW I to 9-11, Democracy and Communism: A Comparison of Brownson and Marx, and Intro. to World Religions. I operate the website devoted to the late Orestes Brownson (1803-'76), co-founder of Notre Dame:
www.orestesbrownson.org. I also have a Bitchute page, LetsGoBryan:
https://www.bitchute.com/search/?query=letsgobryan&kind=video.
What I believe: I am Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, which necessarily means that I do not accept BoB and BoD as most people define it. Concerning the New Mass, I accept the conclusions as enunciated by Fr. Wathen in The Great Sacrilege, that it is questionably invalid, unquestionably a mortal sin, and unquestionably illicit. Concerning sedevacantism, I accept that Francis is pope, but in the end, whether he be or not be, is a non-issue. *In this age of apostasy what matters is that I receive valid sacraments from a validly ordained priest. I have had pro-BoD priests call me a heretic and give me Holy Communion. That is fine, I know what I am, and, as the saying goes, It is what it is! Flat Earth, no, but open to the arguments. There are a multitude of other issues which I find interesting which I may or may not opine about.
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