This is an extremely complex question. She does attend the Latin mass in Nashville weekly. I would have attended the one here in Knoxville gladly if they did not just shut it down. From now on it will be a reverent Latin mass as opposed to the old one. So she does attend what’s left of the tlm until they take hers away too. To us who have come to the faith or came back to the faith the T.L.M is a gift from God despite the circuмstances around it. If the remaining Latin mass is not mass then………. Phew we’re in the worst circuмstances. Why would they bother shutting them down if it was not the last bastion of the faith?
It is a complex question; and it takes many years to wade through everything. I began in the novus ordo, went to the indult, then the SSPX, and now I receive the Sacraments twice a month from a sedevacantist group. As long as you really love the truth and are willing to put the Lord before your own comfort, He will guide you. And most definitely, you are already receiving many graces.
There's something I don't understand. You said, "From now on it will be a reverent Latin mass as opposed to the old one." I presume you are speaking of yourself, and that you mean that you are now going to look for the novus ordo service said in Latin. Is that right?
Your question, "Why would they bother shutting [the indult Masses] down if it was not the last bastion of the faith," is an excellent one.
I am certain that the people who attend the indult Masses do have the Catholic Faith. They want to be Catholic. This makes them pariahs in the novus ordo. Such folk have been abused and manipulated by the novus ordo since the false council. Ratzinger really threw them a massive curve ball, and a mouthful of poison, with his Summorum Pontificuм. In order to have their special status they had to compromise the Faith. SP teaches, falsely, that there are two "rites" in the Church, ordinary and extraordinary. In order to get the extraordinary, they had to consent to the lie that the novus ordo sacrilege is the official rite of the Roman Church. They had to affirm a lie in order to get their Mass.
You've studied conspiracy enough to understand that getting the consent of the victim, getting him to compromise in some way, is a large part of how they obtain and preserve their power. You've studied the Faith enough to understand that even the tiniest compromise is a mortal sin, for which you will go to hell. The martyrs died rather than make even a minute compromise.
Along the line, the indult Catholics swallowed many errors. We cannot judge their souls, but we can most certainly identify the errors. These errors, speaking objectively, are mortally fatal to the soul; but we hope that the sin is mitigated by the terrible confusion.
One reason, therefore, to allow the TLM in certain locations is to obtain the compromise and consent of the faithful. It is "TLM as long as you prop up the novus ordo."
Another reason to let them have it is sacrilege. If it is being simulated by invalidly ordained men, then only bread and wine are being adored and distributed. How many indult "priests" are ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs? We had one in this diocese, and he was also in the military!
Another reason: Let us give them the TLM, with invalidly ordained priests. We get their sin of compromise, we get their submission to our illegitimate and false authority, and we deprive them of real sacramental grace.
Last reason for now: The hegelian dialectic. The enemy thrives on division. Indult Catholics are divided from novus ordoites, from SSPXers, and from sedevacantists.
Principles must precede action. This is what I meant when I conjectured that you may have launched before navigating the course. Attending an indult TLM violates many principles of both Reason and Faith. Staying inside the novus ordo is, objectively speaking, an act of mortal sin.
A thorough understanding of principles is the only map one can follow in making decisions.
I'm not trying to smash you into submission. You are a work in progress. Let God take His own time with you. But here are the principles I steer by:
1. The novus ordo is not the Roman Catholic Church.
2. The novus ordo hierarchy is a categorical imposture with zero ecclesiastical authority. It's authority is purely human and delegated to it by men who "consent to iniquity." [2 Thes] As soon as the consent is withdrawn, the whole thing comes down in its own footprint.
3. novus ordo sacraments are invalid. Their priests and bishops are laymen.