Why try the TLM?
Let me put it this way: I have rarely experienced anything that has had such a massive impact on my spiritual life as my encounter with the Old Mass. And this is coming from someone who has been incredibly blessed his whole life when it comes to the Faith.
My parents raised me Catholic; my family prayed the Rosary together; I was an altar server in my childhood; two brothers of my grandfather were priests; I received the sacraments regularly, took trips to Rome, went on pilgrimages to places such as Medjugorje, and have friends who are Jesuits and Dominicans and a brother in the Legionaries of Christ.
My wife and I spent about ten years in the charismatic community of Emmanuel. And then, one day, in my early fifties, I moved to Rome and got to know the Traditional Latin Mass, and everything changed. It was the beginning of a complete transformation of my personal life, my life with the sacraments, and my personal relationship with Christ.
Looking back, I can explain all of this only as a fruit of this liturgy and the world surrounding it. It was as if a page had been turned—and not just for
