I wish the bishops would issue an instruction to that effect. Last week, the priest opened with those words - and then suddenly went into folksy mode, said Good Morning, gave a completely clueless summary of his idea of what the Gospel was about (no idea why that has started appearing at Masses now), and told us to all turn around and greet each other. You can imagine the effect.
I agree that the VatII Mass does not have to be horrible. But the only good parts of it are the parts that remain from the Tridentine Rite. I also agree that the Tridentine Rite needed a bit of cleaning up here and there, and originally many of us thought that was all the NO was going to be - a tweaking, reflecting the suggestions of various scholarly and perfectly orthodox liturgical reformers in the early 20th century, and a translation of at least parts into the vernacular.
To add insult to injury, what we have in the US isn't even a translation; it's a selective paraphrase.
One might begin to suspect that he's been the victim of some sort of brainwashing ... or maybe some malicious alien mind-parasite has taken him over < /paranoid SciFi mode>
But the only good parts of it are the parts that remain from the Tridentine Rite.
I believe the best part of the new Rite is the greatly expanded lessons from the Sacred Scriptures. If the priest uses "Eucharistic Prayer I" it's otherwise basically a stripped down (perhaps too stripped down) Tridentine Mass. Except that:
what we have in the US isn't even a translation; it's a selective paraphrase.
and an abhominable paraphrase, at that.