How the vernacular is a vast improvement over Latin
FUNNY!!! Intrepid blog master of Rorate Caeli, responding to Cardinal Kasper's audacious claim that Catholics communicated better before the Council (no joke), and to the question whether anything at all was qualitatively improved following the last Ecumenical Council, dares to reply:
Ah, yes, the vernacular - it was indeed impossible to understand those "services conducted in Latin"!
In third grade, after my first communion in second grade, I acquired a daily missal and used it at Mass. By the end of that year I knew the ordinary of the Mass by heart. Yet, people of my age who seem to have forgotten their own experiences, tell me that they never understood what was going on in the Latin Mass. Harsh as it may be to some of my peers, I can only conclude that either they did not care to know what was being said or they have swallowed hook, line and sinker the post-VII propaganda about what a wonderfull thing the council had done for us in removing from our backs the heavy load of the Latin liturgy.
In third grade, after my first communion in second grade, I acquired a daily missal and used it at Mass. By the end of that year I knew the ordinary of the Mass by heart. Yet, people of my age who seem to have forgotten their own experiences, tell me that they never understood what was going on in the Latin Mass. Harsh as it may be to some of my peers, I can only conclude that either they did not care to know what was being said or they have swallowed hook, line and sinker the post-VII propaganda about what a wonderfull thing the council had done for us in removing from our backs the heavy load of the Latin liturgy.
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