[ninenot]

Wonder if all that Latin stuff, including the Introit/Requiem and the Communio, will have any effect on the US Philistine community?

[bornacatholic]

It certainly had a profound effect upon me. As you probably know, I am a fan of the vernacular Mass. However, lately - ever since Lent began, actually - I have been experiencing a desire to return to the old Mass. Watching this funeral and hearing the Latin pierced my soul. It has revealed to me an unacknowledged pain of longing I have for the solemnity,certitude, and beauty I so often find lacking even in the rubrically obedient masses celebrated by my Pastor. Until recently, I wasn't even aware of the reason for the pain/malaise I often feel.

In fact, I am crying while I am typing this. Certainly there is something lacking in my life that isn't being addressed by the Pauline Rite I so often defend.

This funeral Mass was like a breath of the Holy Spirit breathing upon an almost dead ember; a spark of memory in my soul; and it reminds me of my home in the Latin Rite. I want to be home. Until today, I didn't realize I was lost.

I'd give anything if tomorrow I could be present at a Mass celebrated according to the 1962 Roman Missal. I'd give anything to be home.

Sadly, there isn't one in my area. Maybe I am doomed to wander.