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Article: THE TRIDENTINE MASS.
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- Commonweal
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- September 8, 2000
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Recently, for the first time in more than thirty years, I had an opportunity to attend the Tridentine Mass of my youth. It was celebrated at a parish church in Flint, Michigan, by the pastor of the university chapel in Ypsilanti of which I am a member.
The Mass left me with a set of strong but conflicting impressions. Of course, some of my impressions are personal or peculiar to Catholics of my generation. For the first half of my life, the Tridentine Mass was the only Mass I knew. What to younger Catholics today might seem strange and perhaps alienating, impressed me at the Flint parish as familiar and even reassuring.
Personal associations aside, I was ...