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To: Daffy

I will read the link you posted.

I agree that the Tridentine Mass takes effort to understand and follow, especially for people like myself who do not understand Latin. I attended an indult Tridentine Mass almost every Sunday for three years. At the end of the three years, I still could not speak or understand the prayers in Latin although I was able to follow a translation of the Mass in a missal. At that point I stopped going to the Tridentine Mass on a regular basis.

If others want to attend the Tridentine Mass, that's great. But I don't think that the solution to the Church's liturgical problems is to ditch the Novus Ordo and return to the older form of the rite unless that rite could be said in the vernacular.


39 posted on 03/25/2006 11:41:46 AM PST by steadfastconservative
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To: steadfastconservative

I wouldn't have a problem with saying the old rite in the vernacular. The Anglo-Catholics have been doing so for over 100 years. Just attend "Mass" at St. Clement's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, and you will see the old rite in English.


40 posted on 03/25/2006 6:24:09 PM PST by pravknight (Christos Regnat, Christos Imperat, Christus Vincit)
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