I originally wrote this in 2017. I decided to modify and re-publish it. This is not meant to be a deep theological or liturgical study of the Mass, and I admit it’s hardly objective. This is an autobiographical sketch of my experiences growing up as an American Catholic with the Novus Ordo Mass, and what I experienced when I found and attended the Latin Mass. My family I have always felt very blessed to have been born into a Catholic family. Even if I did not always appreciate, understand, or practice my Catholic faith very well, I still feel it was a privilege to be baptized as an infant into the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. I am so glad that I was raised from the very beginning with the Mass, the Eucharist, the sacrament of Confession, the Rosary, my Guardian Angel, and the Communion of Saints. My First Communion with Fr. Day and my brother, Joseph. I had a very average American upbringing; nothing special to report. I was a mostly worldly child that