Replies

Ninenot,I was only speaking to "those that recoil" at the mention of a Latin Mass.I suggest it to a lot of priests and most respond reasonably,even if I don't agree with them.It was only the ones that shrink from the suggestion that I started to think about the supernatural powers of the Latin. Sorry,I wasn't clearer.to the best of my recollections,over thirty years there have only been three that had that frightening reaction. One,thirty years ago and the other two in the past three years.

No harm done.

Odd, though, how reactions vary.

I approached my Pastor back in 1987 (?)--he had been the Prexy of North American, solid guy, not too much nonsense--about the possibility of doing the NO in Latin.

Although he was comfortable with my training a Schola to do the Propers (Introit, Offertorium, Communio) and the Ordinary (Kyr, Gloria, Sanc/Ben, Agnus) in Chant/Latin--he would NOT use any other Latin during the Mass.

He knew that Weakland would frown, mightily--but he didn't have to give a hoot. He had friends in all the right places.

He just wouldn't do it. In the end, it turned out that he was a rather weak fellow. You'd like him as a friend and as a priest--but he didn't take the bull (not just this one, mind you) by the horns.

Too much 'corporate life,' perhaps.