At the risk of incurring the wrath of others or being tagged as a proselytizer, there are many different rites within the Catholic church. Many years ago my wife's family discovered the rot within the RC church and converted to the Eastern Rite church (Byzantine-Ruthenian rite.) It is much closer to the original church. (At that time, the Latin Rite was still proscribed so they couldn't go to the Latin church.)
The elevator pitch is that St. Peter went to Rome, St. Paul went to Constantinople and that is how the different ethnicities shaped the structure of the Mass. I was born Lutheran and found it tasteless. The first Byzantine liturgy moved me in a way no other church service did and I converted to Byzantine Catholicism.
At the risk of incurring the wrath of others or being tagged as a proselytizer, there are many different rites within the Catholic church. Many years ago my wife's family discovered the rot within the RC church and converted to the Eastern Rite church (Byzantine-Ruthenian rite.) It is much closer to the original church. (At that time, the Latin Rite was still proscribed so they couldn't go to the Latin church.)
The elevator pitch is that St. Peter went to Rome, St. Paul went to Constantinople and that is how the different ethnicities shaped the structure of the Mass. I was born Lutheran and found it tasteless. The first Byzantine liturgy moved me in a way no other church service did and I converted to Byzantine Catholicism.
End of my testament. :)