Admittedly, I am not a fan of returning to a Latin Rite. I am also not a fan of the happy-clappy love-ins that pass for Mass these days. The Anglicans produced a fabulous English liturgy in the 1928 BCP, which, in my view, could be used as a basis for an English Rite (that service is actually more “Catholic” than what one funds in most parishes today). Even the Orthodox have used the 1928 BCP as their “Western Rite”.
Imagine if the Anglicans (having tossed ECUSA), Catholics, Lutherans and Orthodox could agree on the same basic English language liturgy that is reverent and traditional (with minor adjustments for each group). The first three already use the same lectionary.
Well, and I say this as someone who is a member of an exclusively Latin Mass parish, the days of 100% Latin are over. It shouldn’t be 0% either, though, and there has to be a happy medium somewhere which could result in a mixed-language liturgy such as is seen on EWTN.
I’m right with you with the ‘28 BCP. We have something close in the Anglican Use:
http://www.liturgies.net/Liturgies/Catholic/RCCAnglicanUse.htm
If groups like the Traditional Anglican Communion reunite with Rome (as they are trying to do as we speak), this liturgy might well get more play.
So there is already something of a commonality among all these groups around an Anglican nucleus. I wish the Novus Ordo could follow suit, but that doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen.
The Antiochan Orthodox Church in America I believe has a western-rite (Orthodox) liturgy in Latin in some parishes. It is my understanding that old Scottish Orthodox rites were also Latin-based.
I am almost positive that Latin-rite included bi-weekly absitance from meats and animal prouducts at one time and that most traditional Catholics make a sign of the cross with three fingers as we Orthodox do.
I also noticed that in the NO rite the people do not bow to insence, and that a sign of the Cross is made only at the beginning and the end of the liturgy.