I am old enough to remember the Latin Mass. When I was 7, I made my
First Holy Communion, and the Mass was in Latin. Even at that age, I
didn’t like the Latin Mass because you couldn’t understand it. Also,
the priest never turned around and looked at the Congregation during the
Mass. All the readings were in Latin, and, unless you had a Missal,
you couldn’t understand what the readings meant. It was way too easy to
let my mind wander far away from church, the mass, and everything else
around me. If the priest’s homily was based on the readings, it was
hard to make a connection between what the priest was saying and the
words read by the priest in Latin.
When Vatican II had concluded, and I attended the first Mass said in English, I was stunned.
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It's nice to see something written by a Catholic who remembers 'the good old days' - that's not an angsty lament about Vatican II. ;)
ReplyDeleteAs an adult convert to Catholicism, I've got a slightly different viewpoint. I might have become a Catholic, anyway - - - but being able to understand what's said in Mass helped.