When the Council of Trent was convened in 1545 there were so many variations and corruptions in the mass across the Church that the Council decided to root out the tendencies of local churches to make innovations om the mass (which often led to heresy) by allowing only those forms of the mass which were in use more than two hundred years when the council convened. The result was one mass that unified the entire church.
The Second Vatican Council is often blamed for the Novus Ordo, but in reality most of the controversy was not caused by the Council as many claim. The real controversy was that Paul VI and the parts of the Curia implemented something completely different than what the Council Fathers intended. The Council's decree did not order the Church to rewrite the mass and introduce the vernacular. The decrees only allowed for the vernacular in "certain prayers", not in the entire mass. In fact, the Council actually orders Latin to be maintained in the Roman Rite of the Church. The council likely would have condemned the actions taken following the council. The council did NOT order the end of communion rails, the end of Gregorian Chant, the destruction of altars, the priest to face the people in mass, the Tabernacle to be removed from the Center of the Altar, the reception of Communion in the hand, and many other things which were implemented in the name of the "Spirit of Vatican II" even when it is clear that these things are not in alignment with what the Council was trying to do. If the Council Father's had attempted to impose these things including the Novus Ordo while the Council was in session, it is very likely that the Bishops would never have signed the decree. However, it is likely that many of the Bishops had something more like the transitional Tridentine Mass used Tridentine Mass used between the Council and Novus Ordo.
**The decrees only allowed for the vernacular in "certain prayers", not in the entire mass.**
First time I have ever heard that.
Every single Catholic should be forced to reckon with the truth in your post.
Bravo!