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I may not be alone when I say I never have and want to attend an Ad Orientum Mass so bad. Let us all pray for each other who haven’t experienced this yet!
@GabiAfterHours I’m a young woman, in case you were addressing me. Nonetheless, I hope men in the priesthood and laity are inspired to attend Ad Orientum for their parishes and families!
I attended a couple of traditional Masses, during Covid. I have never in my life attended such a beautiful, saturated Mass filled with worship, piety, intent and ultimate Adoration to Father God. It's like, Novos Ordo was diluted, (although I say this with respect)! I came out of Mass on Fire for God and wanting more of Mass!!! It was incredible! I pray you find a traditional Mass soon....
@@giordano3382 This is how those who are mute and sometimes the deaf confess their sins, so yes it is completely valid. The Priest would have told you if it was invalid because he should be knowledgeable on such things. Questions like these are answered in the Baltimore catechism. However, if writing your sins for confession, you should destroy the paper immediately afterwards. God bless.
I have long been a faithful Catholic, attending Mass every Sunday. A little more than a year ago, I moved to a new parish where Mass is celebrated Ad Orientem, many of the prayers (including the eucharistic prayer) are said in Latin, incense is part of the liturgy and we say the Leonine Prayers after Mass. This has affected me profoundly. My faith has never been stronger. I now attend Mass every day and pray the rosary every night. My exposure to the traditions of the church has been life-changing.
@@isaiah3872 Novus Ordo, but very reverent. I have been to Tridentine Mass and love that too. At least for me, the important thing is that it is CATHOLIC. And what I've learned is that -- in my humble opinion -- the Masses I grew up with were lacking many of the essential elements of a Catholic Mass. Adding more reverence and tradition back into the Mass makes all the difference in the world, even in a Novus Ordo Mass. When you "relax" the tradition, you lose the conduit to God. At least, that is my experience. I cannot stress enough how attending a more traditional, more reverent Mass has changed my life. I wish everyone could experience what I have experienced.
Holy Tradition has renewed my entire faith, and has given my faith a depth that I never had before. I come from the Novus Ordo, since birth. But once I found Holy Tradition in the Tridentine Mass on 2019, I knew I could never go back. I pray for a continued resurgence of what we almost completely lost. Once lost, it may be impossible to get back. I just know it's always been said, the Catholic Church stands on the three pillars, Holy Tradition, Word of God and the Magisterium.
I am so happy that I found your channel, Gabe! I am in RCIA right now, i taught myself to pray the rosary. I try to say it three times a day (this including the 3pm mercy chapel. I am hungry for tradition! God bless you!
These videos make me cry 🥺💗 because it’s amazing to see the respect everyone has for the mass, it’s something that you see is lost in so many churches now. I’m trying to build up courage to talk to my pastor about this, he doesn’t seem to be much of a fan of the tradition:/ but I’m praying his heart changes and will give it a chance 🙏🏻 thank you for sharing a beautiful video with us!
God bless you my friend!!! Pray pray pray. Our prayers are never wasted. If your pastor rejects you I am confident Our Lord is raising up great new priests who love tradition. Thank you for being a subscriber and watching!!!!
This video honors God, it is filled with Love and Truth. I support this video and channel a million% because I know that our Jesus, Lord and Savior does and so does His Mama Mary. I will pray this video is seen by every priest and received with an open heart.
As I was coming out of my short agnostic life I asked blessed mother to bring back Ad Orientem in my Church (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church). To my surprise within a month the new format of Qurbana was approved by the pope which demanded to face altar during anaphora. But there is some unfortunate protest from some priests and misinformed laity but I pray they can't do much harm.
How I wish to have people in my parish who want it also. I feel so alone in this that even if I spoke with our priest he would just look at me like if I was a psycho. The Latin mass and even more reverent NO are not common in my country at all. Please pray for us so that all catholics will understand the true meaning of mass. Thank you🙏
My faith journey on Earth was completed by attending TLM , but it’s so much more then just attending TLM, its a lifestyle. Lex Orandi Lex Credendi Lex Vivendi
Kathy, may our Lord bless you for your love and fidelity to him. Thank you for taking the time for watching and thank you for sharing!!!! All for Our Lord!
Thank you Gabi for being such an inspiration. Watching your videos has helped me increase my faith and understood the Rosary so much. Now, I cannot go a day without praying the rosary. Thank you! I'm a 23 year old from India, Meghalaya
I know young people who drive miles, out of town, to go to a Latin Mass. I wish the Latin Mass would be the only Mass available and not the New one. The New one can be so watered down, from the “worship music” to the entertainment, to the actual belief that Jesus is there. A RU-vid channel I HIGHLY recommend is Sensus Fedlium, a true Catholic channel with homilies worth their weight in gold!
Great video!!! I just recently started to watch your videos pertaining to the Rosary and especially your videos promoting saying 4 Rosaries a day and I've become a fan of your channel and now since seeing this video I'm an even bigger fan now. I'm going to go out on a small limb here and suggest that your dedication to the Rosary is helping you to see the truth and thankfully promote what I also believe to be the truth. My first time to a Latin Mass was one week before they shut the Churches down in March of 2020 here in Cape Cod Massachusetts and I took to it like a fish to water from the very first Mass. I'm still learning about it and how to use the missal proficiently and it might take a while but I felt the difference from day 1 even when I had no idea what was going on. Lex Orandi, Lex Crendendi, Lex Vivendi Dominus Vobiscum Pax
We have lost much of the reverence in our church. To see the priest face God when he elevates the Host, makes me feel we truly have heaven on earth for that moment.
There are some churches in the Philippines though when they celebrate the N.O., they face towards the congregation during the introductory until the homily. But during the offertory, consecration until the communion, they face towards the altar or ad orientem. Only during the final blessing they face towards the congregation. And its honestly perfectly balance.
"The distraction of having the human face of the priest looking towards you during the consecration is removed." Very well put. And may I add that for me, as a priest, the distraction of facing the people at that most sacred moment of the consecration is removed - in other words, I am able to focus my heart, mind and body on the saying the words of Christ and offering Him - and myself in union with Him - to the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit. And, surprise, surprise, if I'm praying better it helps everyone else pray better. I once heard someone use this example: Are you offended if a bus driver is facing away from the passengers while he is driving? No. You want him to lead the vehicle safely to its destination. If he stood up while driving on the interstate, left the wheel and faced the passengers we all know what the outcome would be... total disaster. But the more important reasons for ad orientem are theological - facing East, facing Christ, the Sun of Justice, who rises from the dead and will come in glory; keeping our focus on the glory and adoration due to God.
Oh man, I wished my dad would be as devout a you! Unfortunately he is an atheist, my mom though us our faith. It's hard to not have an male role model in terms of faith. But this channel keeps me on fire for Jesus and Mary! Please pray for my dad, because even though he is an atheist he is starting to ask a lot of questions about our faith and wants to learn more about it!
Thank you for this very important video! I've been attending Novus Ordo Masses my entire life and I really crave a return to more reverence in the Mass. There isn't a lot of access to the Latin Mass here where I live. I'm looking for a Novus Ordo Mass that is celebrated with elements of the Latin Mass present, such as Ad Orientem and kneeling to receive Communion. It's not perfect but it'll help to re-establish that atmosphere of Sacredness and Awe that the TLM contains. Please pray that I'll have to courage to show this video to my Parish Priest! Mary be with you Gabriel!
i was at Bishop Gracida's Cathedral when he was the Bishop. It was so much better than most places. At least the extraordinary ministers wore albs and were in the front pew. that made more sense than what i saw everywhere else. and it so looked better.
It (and more) will come. Soon, I'm sure. Much suffering is awaiting us before it, but we must endure. It won't be by another way. Mary will be with us the whole time. Of course it doesn't mean we won't fight, we must do what we can.
Our family receives the Holy Eucharist on our knees despite the absence of the altar rail. We could not receive Jesus in our hands while standing. It just doesn't feel right receiving the King of kings standing up.
When I am in a Versum Populum Parish, I look up to the Crucifix during Canon of the Mass except during the two-fold Consecration, then I close my eyes before the elevations.....all to avoid the distractions of looking at the Priest's face.
I've been wanting to talk to my pastor about this but didn't know how to approach the topic. The Holy Spirit then dropped this video in my lap, which I just texted to my pastor and just commented more or less what I just said here. Pray for my pastor, Fr. Stan Fiuk and for my parish, St. James Parish, Seguin, Texas. God bless you, Gabriel!!! Long time follower.
@@gabiafterhours I have thought about that more than a few times. I'll talk to father and whoever else and see about making an official invite. I know it still might not happen but I can't pass up this opportunity.
🕯🙏 Such a reverent and respectfully delivered explanation. It catechises those who have no understanding or a false understanding what ad orientem means in the people's limited wisdom and in their churches, and in the thoughts of bishops priests deacons. I did ask specifically about implementing some of the chants and a sense of reverence especially during the seasons of Advent and Lent, but my Novus Ordo priest said two things that put an end to the discussion unfortunately. He said, as far as chanting goes thats entirely up to the music ministry. He has no say in it and doesn'tget involved. Of course, I suggested he could suggest or even direct their attention to the tradition and words of first p.benedict and the p.francis. But he also said that our new Bishop is very against anything resembling a latin rite, latin language, chants, ad oriented implemented correctly or incorrectly... he even seemed a bit afraid. It gave me pause.
We moved recently, and the priest at our current parish says the Mass ad orientum. We had never seen or known about it before, we were kind of caught off guard at our first Mass there.. Me and my Wife looked at each other and didn't have to say anything. We knew this was the right way to say mass.
Bishop Tamayo! I knew you as a teenager and even though you were a NO priest your masses were very reverent! My family loved you in Corpus Christi, TX!
Yes, we and the Priest of Almighty God should Face to God in the Altar as the Tradition as the Great Prophets do, and appeal and worship Him, He will answer our prayers and guide us in this currupted world.
I'm a Syro Malabar Catholic and 34/35 Dioceses/eparchies celebrating Divine liturgy in Ad Orientem but one diocese is fighting against Ad Orientem. Pray for us and yes we pray for you too....
How lucky for people that could attend Ad Orientem Mass, we rarely have it here, most of Mass is always Novus Ordo. Anyway, thank you for always served top-tier quality video about Catholicism, Gabi! God bless you!
Think you mean most of Mass is versus Populum and not Novus Ordo. Ad Orientem is possible happen in both Novus Ordo and TLM. In fact at the minute mark 0:41 the Roman Missal shown is the Novus Ordo Missal.
@@gabiafterhours absolutely it's the same spirit that through her intercession we experience the pentecost in our souls thank you for such grace in your 'Fiat'
My Bishop now does Mass at the Cathedral ad orientem. and he has encouraged all the priests to do it also if they want to. and he has also ordered all priests to pray the Prayer to St. Michael at the end of every Mass.
Please let us return to sanity, the Latin Mass. The Priest needs to pray with us, not AT us! Praying as one, together with the Priest we’re better! Publicly come out against Vatican II and it’s heresy.
I totally understand that the priest having an irreverent posture towards the sacrifice of the Mass drives people out. I am currently one of those people in the midst of leaving. It’s so much harder for me to attend Mass and watch as the priest is so irreverent, on top of the many hardships I already have that hold me back from going to Mass. Every time Sunday comes I am just not inspired to go to Mass anymore. That and my wife hardly is religious.
Our vocational director at my big ten university would offer AO once a month and the church would be standing room only. The youth wants this. Ad Orientum is total participation.
I must face east (in the casket in due time) I will put this in my will & inform everyone as well :-) In that format, "Ad Orientum" to the east, whereby Jesus is like the sun, we face- would the liturgy be automatically in latin? God bless.
I noticed that in the video that the bell rings when the priest genuflects before he raises the hosts and that they also have the altar cards present. The Ordinary Form also allows that? Or were the clips taken from the Extraordinary Form?
If people were heading once in a while to a church, to one dedicated doing it genuinely, regularly, after a while, its growing assistance will make understanding the population need of this beautiful spirituality. Give Peace a chance?! Give spirituality a necessary growing blessing chance/grace also. There were a time community could be allowed to exist. Latin mass is gatherer of desire to go deeper in devine mystery. It is certainly a divine grace to keep it. Also, we go to mass by habits and sometimes by routine... But getting deeper into the meanings of mass parts, the why it is then we do this, etc., with sections of the bible in correlations, we could all be "priests/witnesses by faith". There are good reasons why God allowed us living mass for so long. Why not giving/living us this teaching of Latin Mass?! I used to sing in gregorian with men choir. People traveled far to hear us. There are richness in it. I pray God we don't loose this. God bless!
We are trying to get faithful Catholics to send in their thoughts to their local diocesan representatives for the "Synodal Way" lets have the Traditional Voice heard. Ignore their questions they're loaded, just write about what the Church really needs to do. Please see our latest Clear Vision Catholics blog post and take a look at the Christendom Rising 3
Hi First God bless you for this wonderful video. I wound like to ask permission to translate it to Portuguese, I really would like to share this video with all my Brazilians friends, families and all Brazilians that I could share but the language is a limitation. Could I put caption in available in Portuguese?
Also, has the Church actually “banned” altar rails? Could your local Catholic priest just bring it back to his parish church (assuming the funds were available)?
Can I use the phrase ad orientem for the title of my school project? It's a picture of a sunrise, I just think it'd be cool. Would that be appropriate?
My opinion In modern time when they want to remove this ancient style of mass we should embrace it, and have it once a day maybe in the morning 730 or afternoon 430
“By kindliness and loyalty atonement is made for sin; with the fear of the Lord goes avoidance of evil.”[Proverbs 16:6] “You see now that it is by doing something good, and not only by believing, that a man is justified. A body dies when it is separated from the spirit, and in the same way faith is dead if it is separated from good deeds. “[James 2:26] So the path to God begins by recognizing that evil exists, that we are compromised by sin, the evil we have chosen in the past, and there is, through the power of faith, that is incorporation into Christ through the sacraments (beginning with Baptism) that we can make atonement for sin (our own and that of the whole world).
Is it difficult to understand that priest is not the centre of the Eucharist? Is it not wrong to think that God orientation is Oriental and ad populorum is Latin?
In some places it was lost, but sadly in many places it was intentionally stolen. We must fight to recover what is rightfully ours and our children's. God bless you and Mary be with you!
Ad orientem just refers to the direction the priest is facing (toward the altar, together with the people). Its opposite is Versus Populum or facing the people. Novus Ordo is the form of the mass altogether. Novus Ordo can be celebrated ad orientem.
i think we need to pay attention to the floodgate of graces that was opened when we came back to the ways it had always been, to ways the saints did. its not that the new rites are invalid, in honesty the old rites are simply done better.
