He most enjoys a language he can’t understand?
Hey, why not? There are opera fans who have to read the translation of their favorite music.
What’s understanding got to do with it? God understands. Mass is the Holy Sacrifice, not a training session. Latin serves multiple purposes: timelessness, universality, stability, continuity. And yes, mystery. Worship is supposed to be an encounter with God. When you do your best to suck out the sense of mystery, how authentic can that encounter be? You want to worship a god you can understand? It would be smaller than you are.
no problem, Latin is on the left, english is on the right...
It is not that difficult— in the same way pilots and air traffic controllers all over the world use English nowadays, the western Church used Latin, which was the “lingua franca” of that time. People learned what the prayers meant and no matter where someone came from, they could be equally at home in the Mass.
Now parishes have to have Masses in different languages. Each has its good points and bad.
Why assume he can’t understand it? A lot of my friends in high school took Latin just for fun.
If you’re Catholic, or even just literate, you’d be surprised at how much of the Latin mass you would understand, even without a missal that gives both languages.