This future in which traditional Catholics in their TLM-celebrating churches are separated from the rest of the faithful in diocesan parishes would be immensely harmful for all.
By Matt Soldano, Crisis Magazine, March 9, 2023
Matt Soldano is a Catholic husband and father who helps run a catering company based in Willow Grove, PA. A former Protestant deacon, he and his family are recent converts to the Church. He is currently working towards his Master’s in Theological Studies at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Once a month, a local homeschool group visits the 9 a.m. Mass at my parish, which celebrates the Novus Ordo. The group mostly consists of traditional Catholic moms and their kids from a Latin Mass parish located 30-45 minutes away. They arrive in fifteen-passenger vans with roughly 5-8 kids per mother. The women wear chapel veils, and they all receive Communion on the tongue while kneeling. It’s a beautiful sight to behold.
Outside of that group, the Mass is mostly attended by older, retired folks and a handful of younger Catholics who work strange hours, like myself, and find themselves free on a Wednesday morning. The presence of these mothers and their children is welcomed by all. It is a beautiful thing both that this group exists and that they choose to attend Mass with us. …