We had moved to Kansas City, KS, in August. I was friends with Dr Marian Horvat, and one day, just in passing, she mentioned the TLM that she and her parents regularly attended. It was, at the time, sharing a NO Church called Blessed Sacrament, which was about a 30-minute walk from our house. In those days, before my COPD became acute, I could walk for miles.
Dr Horvat told me one day that she was planning on going to a weekday Mass and would I like a ride. Since I wasn't sure where the Church was, I accepted. It turned out to be St Felix of Valois's Feast Day. I had only been to one TLM since the Council, and that was in a barn-like Church of a student centre. Blessed Sacrament had only had a Cranmer Table put in front of the High Altar.
The Pastor was a French member of the FSSP. In his sermon, he mentioned the apocryphal story of St Felix being a member of the French Royal Family, the House of Valois.
After Mass, as we were chatting, I told him that the last time I had heard France mentioned in a sermon was in 1989, when, on the Sunday after Bastille Day, the Priest had praised the French Revolution from the pulpit.
He bridled and said, "Well, you won't get any of that here!" To which I said, "Good!"
I became a regular attendee at Sunday Mass after that. The TLM has since moved, as have I (several times!), and I would no longer be able to walk to it, but I have visited it, though not for Mass, unfortunately.
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