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Why the Byzantine Divine Liturgy and not the TLM?

how did Buddhism lead you to God?

I am not sure about your (former) Anglican spirituality but today people often think of protestants as Sunday Christians and the Catholics and Orthodoxes as everyday Christians.

I don't know what TLM means.

Why the Divine Liturgy? For one thing it is very similar to Tibetan Buddhist practice - particularly the chanting. The other was that I felt a connectedness that I had not experienced before.


It gave me the space and the permission to look beyond myself - I was freed from the imposition of ecclesiastical dogmas and narrow doctrines. In hindsight - it was mystical and experiential.


You are too cryptic for me.

TLM=Traditional Latin Mass, i.e. using Missal of 1962 http://www.sanctamissa.org/en/tutorial/sample-liturgies.html

I wish people would stop the political correctness and simply say "Tridentine Mass" and "Novus Ordo". Then everyone would know what everyone else means.

I see that you subscribe to the school that says language is for communicating. That's so last century. These days, ever since we ran completely dry of useful ideas worth passing on, language is mostly about muddling thought while sounding cool.