[uncbob]

A heck of a lot of people under the age of 40 don't have the faintest memory of a Latin Mass

[ELS]

While that is true, what is your point? I was born during the council and had never experienced a Latin Mass until early last year. Many Jewish children with whom I grew up learned Hebrew. Are you saying Catholics can't learn Latin? After trying the Latin Mass, I decided I liked it. In fact, I preferred it.

[Antoninus]

A heck of a lot of people under the age of 40 don't have the faintest memory of a Latin Mass

I'm 30. I'm a child of the 1970s and grew up when guitar masses, clown masses, pandering homilies, and liturgical dancing were all the vogue. The result was that us kids had no respect or reverence for the service and very little understanding of what was going on. Most didn't care. The adults clearly didn't take things seriously so why should we?

I attended my first Latin mass about five years ago. It was like a revelation! The sense of awe and reverence was palpable. The priest spoke with such force and conviction that there was no question whether he'd want us to call him by his first name after mass. It was a whole new world and felt, strangely, like this is the way it was SUPPOSED to be...

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

A heck of a lot of people under the age of 40 are attending Latin Mass, myself included. I am 35.

[BlackElk]

You would be very surprised at the high percentage of the attendees at our Tridentine St. Mary's Shrine in Rockford (fully in accord with the leadership of our very Catholic Bishop Thomas Doran) who are young couples with large numbers of children.