Grace Thompson
Traditional Catholics live their lives according to the ancient teachings of the Catholic Church. They believe in adoring, loving, and serving God, and defending Catholic dogma against heresies and false worship. This often involves nurturing their sacramental imagination with fairy tales, folklore, great literature, and a cultivated intimacy with the natural world. Traditional Catholics also tend to live simply and sustainably, prioritizing community and family over material possessions. They attend Mass regularly, uniting themselves with Christ's sacrifice, and participate in popular prayer devotions such as the Rosary. In their daily lives, they strive for holiness and fight against temptations with the graces received through the traditional Latin Mass, Rites, and prayers.
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What You'll Learn
Adore, love and serve God
Adoring, loving, and serving God is central to living as a traditional Catholic. This means living a life centred on God, loving and thanking Him for His love, protection, and goodness. It also involves seeking to please God through prayer and living a life that defends and preserves the Catholic faith and its ancient liturgy and teachings.
Traditional Catholics believe that their primary purpose is to adore, love, and serve God, both in this life and in the life to come in heaven. This gives meaning to their earthly existence and their eternal life. They seek to obtain grace through their faith, which will help them fight the devil and their daily temptations. This grace is obtained through the traditional Latin Mass, Rites, and prayers, which are considered powerful tools against evil forces.
Living a holy life is also important for traditional Catholics, who believe that God has blessed them with divine treasures within the Catholic Church. They strive to protect and share these treasures with those who have goodwill. This involves living a life of self-denial, asceticism, discipline, and control, as well as valuing community and interdependence over individualism. Traditional Catholics often have large families and believe in the importance of simple and intentional living, which they see as a path to true happiness.
Traditional Catholics also seek to nurture their sacramental imagination, which allows them to see God's supernatural work in the world through creation, fairy tales, folklore, great literature, and a closeness to nature. They believe that their faith should permeate every aspect of their lives, influencing their daily routines and decisions. This includes attending Mass regularly, which is considered a sacred and unifying act that provides meaning and purpose.
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Defend and preserve the Catholic faith
Defending and preserving the Catholic faith is a key tenet of traditional Catholicism. This involves adhering to the ancient liturgy and teachings of the Catholic Church, which guide how adherents live and worship.
A central aspect of this is nurturing a "sacramental imagination", which allows traditional Catholics to see all of creation as an 'outward sign' of God's supernatural work in the world. This is often cultivated through fairy tales, folklore, great literature, and a deep connection with nature. The traditional Latin Mass, Rites, and prayers are also seen as powerful tools to defend Catholic doctrine and combat evil.
To defend the faith against heresies and false worship, traditional Catholics must be vigilant against errors introduced into the Church, as mentioned by St. Paul in his epistles. They also need to avoid getting stuck on superficial elements or polemic battles, instead centring their lives on God and living in obedience to the Church.
Living a holy life, in union with God, is a way to preserve the faith. This involves self-denial, asceticism, discipline, and control, as well as a focus on community and family over individualism. Traditional Catholic families attend Mass regularly, uniting themselves with Christ's sacrifice, and find meaning and guidance in their faith. They also prioritise raising their children with responsibility, accountability, and an understanding of their duties to the wider community.
By living simply and sharing their blessings with others, traditional Catholics aim to preserve the values of their faith and pass on its rich traditions to future generations.
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Unite with God through ancient Catholic practices
Living as a traditional Catholic means uniting with God through ancient Catholic practices. This involves adoring, loving, and serving God, as well as defending and preserving the Catholic faith and its ancient liturgy and teachings.
One way to unite with God is through the practice of ancient Catholic liturgy and prayers, such as the traditional Latin Mass, Rites, and popular devotions like the Rosary, novenas to the Sacred Heart, and the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. These practices are believed to provide graces necessary to fight daily temptations and unite with God.
Sacramental imagination also plays a role in traditional Catholic practices. This involves seeing the world as an 'outward sign' of God's supernatural work, which can be nurtured through fairy tales, folklore, great literature, and intimacy with nature.
Living a holy, happy, and healthy life is also important for traditional Catholics. This includes living simply, sustainably, and with generosity, and being optimistic about building a domestic community. Traditional Catholics may also choose to distance themselves from modern individualism and materialism, instead focusing on family, community, and their duties to others.
Finally, attending Mass regularly is a key practice for traditional Catholics. Through the Mass, they unite with Christ's sacrifice and are nourished by His Body and Blood, Soul, and Divinity. The Mass becomes the centre of their lives, providing meaning and unity with God.
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Grow in holiness in daily life
Traditional Catholics are called to live a radical lifestyle, centred on God and the teachings of Christ. This means living differently from the rest of the world, with a focus on simplicity, self-denial, asceticism, discipline, and control.
To grow in holiness in daily life, one must remember that the primary reason we were created was to adore, love, and serve God, both in this life and the next. This means that our daily lives should be lived in union with God. Traditional Catholics achieve this through prayer, the Mass, and the sacraments. The Mass is not just a civic duty for them, but their entire lives. They unite themselves with Christ's sacrifice and are fed by His body and blood, soul, and divinity. Through the traditional Latin Mass, Rites, and prayers, God grants the graces necessary to fight the devil and daily temptations.
Traditional Catholics also nurture their sacramental imagination, seeing all of creation as an 'outward sign' of God's supernatural work in the world. This is often cultivated through fairy tales, folklore, great literature, and an intimacy with the natural world.
Living a holy life also means living in community with others. Traditional Catholic families pool their resources, live and eat sustainably, and prioritise community and children over material possessions. They teach their children responsibility through chores and mutual interdependence, as well as the importance of serving others.
Finally, growing in holiness means defending the Catholic faith and its ancient liturgy and teachings. This includes defending against heresies, false worship, and errors that have been introduced into the Church throughout history.
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Defend Catholic Dogma against heresies
To live as a traditional Catholic, one must be willing to defend Catholic Dogma against heresies and false worship. From the beginning of Christianity, there have been instances of error introduced into the Church. St. Paul writes about false apostles and those who are against the truth in his epistles.
The concept of dogma has two elements: the public revelation of God, which is the divine revelation as contained in sacred scripture (the written word) and sacred tradition; and a proposition of the Catholic Church, which announces the dogma and declares it binding for the faith. This may occur through an ex cathedra decision by a Pope or a definitive statement made by an Ecumenical Council. Dogma implies a twofold relation: to divine revelation and to the authoritative teaching of the Catholic Church. A dogma's "strict signification is the object of both Divine Faith (Fides Divina) and Catholic Faith (Fides Catholica)". If a baptised person deliberately denies or doubts a dogma, they are guilty of the sin of heresy and are subject to excommunication.
The Catholic Church has faced accusations of its teachings contradicting the Bible. For instance, some claim that Catholics worship Mary, which is considered paganism and polytheism. Catholics deny this, but non-Catholics argue that since Mary is dead, she cannot hear prayers addressed to her. Another example is the withholding of the communion cup for almost 900 years, which was only recently restored to the original first-century tradition of "communion under both kinds".
To defend Catholic Dogma, Catholics can emphasise the following:
- The pope can be a heretic, but he will not officially teach heresy.
- The councils that allegedly use infallibility never contradict each other.
- The pope can err when he speaks about non-religious matters, such as politics, medicine, physics, or the economy.
- The pope can also err in religious matters if he is not speaking ex cathedra. In such cases, he must not be obeyed.
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Frequently asked questions
Traditional Catholics believe in adoring, loving, and serving God, defending and preserving the Catholic faith and its ancient liturgy and teachings, and obtaining a personal union with God through the practice of the ancient Catholic faith.
Traditional Catholics may get stuck on the superficial elements of the Catholic faith and worship, or get caught up in polemic battles with those who do not share their beliefs.
Traditional Catholics live simply and sustainably, often forgoing modern luxuries and individualism in favour of community and family. They attend Mass regularly, and their lives revolve around their Catholic faith.
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