Every time I read your long letters it feels like someone read my heart. As a young person who's parents graduated high school in 1985 and drank the flat soda, they had no drink at all to give us. Born in the later half of the 90s, my brother and I got what I've called Kumbaya Catholicism, he fell away, and I stayed because by the miraculous hand of God, I had friends who's families had preserved a little culture and gave me a drink. I'm now a young person who has gone to the Extraordinary Form since 2017, and participates in "boutique" Catholic culture by driving an hour to Detroit, by myself, in order to assist at Mass with the Institute of Christ the King, as my home diocese/city in 2017 did not have a weekly Extraordinary Form. Now, as of 2020, my hometown was allowed by the diocese to have a weekly Extraordinary Form, but as it's priests are not as familiar with the Rite and I made my spiritual home elsewhere for so many years, I have yet to stop driving. Having no children yet, I don't know what I will choose to do in the future for family life (maybe move be closer if it's an option) but this article gives me so much hope and consolation.
Love this so much. Thank you for your insight and perspective on this! It's refreshing to hear an open acknowledgement about this issue in our Church in such a thoughtful, nuanced way.
Every time I read your long letters it feels like someone read my heart. As a young person who's parents graduated high school in 1985 and drank the flat soda, they had no drink at all to give us. Born in the later half of the 90s, my brother and I got what I've called Kumbaya Catholicism, he fell away, and I stayed because by the miraculous hand of God, I had friends who's families had preserved a little culture and gave me a drink. I'm now a young person who has gone to the Extraordinary Form since 2017, and participates in "boutique" Catholic culture by driving an hour to Detroit, by myself, in order to assist at Mass with the Institute of Christ the King, as my home diocese/city in 2017 did not have a weekly Extraordinary Form. Now, as of 2020, my hometown was allowed by the diocese to have a weekly Extraordinary Form, but as it's priests are not as familiar with the Rite and I made my spiritual home elsewhere for so many years, I have yet to stop driving. Having no children yet, I don't know what I will choose to do in the future for family life (maybe move be closer if it's an option) but this article gives me so much hope and consolation.
Love this so much. Thank you for your insight and perspective on this! It's refreshing to hear an open acknowledgement about this issue in our Church in such a thoughtful, nuanced way.
Brilliant Emily! Such an insightful article.