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 Reclaiming Our
Roman Catholic Birthright

The Genius and Timeliness of the

Traditional Latin Mass
PETER KWASNIEWSKI
 Reclaiming Our
Roman Catholic Birthright

The Genius and Timeliness

of the Traditional Latin Mass
 First published in the USA
by Angelico Press 2020
© Peter Kwasniewski 2020

All rights reserved

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form

or by any means, without permission

For information, address:

Angelico Press
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ISBN 978 1 62138 535 6 pb

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Cover photograph courtesy of Allison Girone

Cover design: Michael Schrauzer
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Awakening in Souls

PART I: ORIENTATION
1 Taste and See: Ten Reasons to Attend the Mass of Ages
2 The Genius of Christianity’s Oldest Rite
3 A New (Old) Perspective on Active Participation
4 Why Congregations Dwindle
5 The Mass That Demands More, Delivers More
6 The Dire Need for a “New Habit of Mind”
7 Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone

PART II: OBJECTIONS & REPLIES

8 Twelve Reasons Not to Prefer the Novus Ordo
9 Responding to Common Anti-TLM Arguments
10 The Problem of False Antiquarianism
11 The Gift of Liturgical Tradition
12 Can We Love Tradition Too Much?
13 The Charge of Aestheticism
14 Understanding Tridentinophobia
15 The Failure of Todaying
16 Should We “Move Past” the Liturgy Debates?
 PART III: PRESENT & FUTURE
17 Children Change Everything
18 What Children Learn from the Traditional Mass
19 Good and Bad Liturgical Parenting
20 Helping Children Enter Into the Mass
21 Sorting Out Difficulties in Liturgical Allegiance
22 Pro-Life, Pro-Liturgy, Pro-Tradition
23 Is the Church Crisis Driving the Faithful to the TLM?
24 Rebuilding on the Ruins of the Conciliar Experiment
Conclusion For a Darkening Church, the Light Is Tradition
Glossary
Select Bibliography
About the Author
Dedicated, with grateful remembrance and lasting affection,
to all the students it has been my privilege to teach

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quam ut audiam filios meos
in veritate ambulare.
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etenim haereditas mea praeclara est mihi.

The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places:

for my inheritance is precious to me.
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“Michel could no longer be said to possess the love of Mass,

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