Well, I disagree here. I like the options provided by the current GIRM rubrics, which includes a variety of Eucharistic Prayers. I like the English liturgy; if somebody wants to sprinkle in some Latin on occasion, fine.
Apples and oranges, Sinky. Apples and oranges.
If the priests in this country and the bishops would just say the Mass according to the GIRM, we would be in a fine state. No one is against legitimate options that are provided for in the rubrics.
What we abhor is the "make it up yourself" things that are allowed to happen.
Surely you can tell the difference between an authorized option to use Eucharistic prayers 1 or 2 or 3 or 4, and a bishop ripping out kneelers so people are discuoraged from doing what the rubrics say? Can you tell the difference between the legitimate option of doing the Confeitor or doing the Kyrie and the practice of the preist leaving words out of the Creed that he doesn't agree with?
SD
Yes. And I guess I'm sheltered, but, even in the wild days of the 70s and 80s, I never ran across a priest who just made stuff up (like Eucharistic Prayers) or who left things out or switched things around.
Maybe the Fort Worth diocese is just a staid place. I know of no threats by our bishops against liturgical innovators; I just don't know of any.
The only liturgical dance I ever saw was two years ago at a Martin Luther King Mass, which I just happened to stumble into. The bishop presided, and some acculturated women did some weaving and dipping bringing up the gifts.