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I guess I never heard it sung properly.

And if I still don't know whatof I speak, after being harangued to death by my holier-than-thou acquaintances and friends walking around with their Latin-English missals and holy cards, I guess I never will.

The nostalgia these objects elicit in me is downright Proustian, however. I do wish we could go back to the morals of those days, at least, which I will never believe are related to the Latin mass. My formula has been Throw out the television set, from which all the evils of the world have been loosed upon us like the insects of Pandora's Box, and speak in Church in a language that people understand.

[AAABEST]

And if I still don't know whatof I speak, after being harangued to death by my holier-than-thou acquaintances and friends walking around with their Latin-English missals and holy cards, I guess I never will.

Don't worry about what they think, or what I or other internet posters think for that matter. People are more likely to seperate you from God than bring you closer.

The reason you would seek to understand it is for closer communion with Him, while understanding the "source" of every Christian religion in existence and the source of Western civilization for that matter.

Without His grace and blessing, none of this would have been possible.

The ancient right is our most direct and intergral line to Jesus the human race has. It's is certainly not coincidence that during the centuries that it was practiced we grew the church to be the greatest most dynamic force in human history, while during the last few decades of supressing it we've deflated and devolved terribly.

The reason for our current problems is because we regard Him less, most blatantly during the mass which is supposed to be about Him.