[Steve_Seattle]

There should or could be alternatives to the sappy new mass and the old Latin mass. I can imagine a mass in English that retains the dignity of the old Latin mass.

[ebb tide]

I can imagine a mass in English that retains the dignity of the old Latin mass.

That's how the first novus ordo masses were originally.

No ad populum, no altar chicks, no Holy Communion in the paw, no lay readers, no eucharistic monsters, etc.

That's when the modernists invented and then invoked their "Spirit of VC II". And they've been doing so ever since.

[ebb tide]

A Primer for a Tradition-Minded Celebration of the OF (Ordinay Form) Mass

[Campion]

Just a few changes make a big difference -- ad orientem and dumping the junky 1970's music in favor of reverent music (including Latin Gregorian chant, and traditional hymnody). Oh, and no crowds of inappropriately dressed "extraordinary ministers of communion," who aren't "extraordinary" if they're used every single Sunday, either. And use the Roman Canon for Sunday Masses.

Except for the first item, everything on that list is completely under the pastor's control.