I have spent the better part of the last year reading the traditionalist or neo traditionalist arguments of Davies - who is great; The Great Facade, etc... I am encouraged that the indult is gradually being accepted and hundreds of people are going the the Tridentine Mass. This along with the more conservative bent of new priests and seminarians should help reign in on the experimentation in the Novus Ordo. On the other hand, Pentacostalism is spreading like wildfire and I fear that will become the dominant trend. We shall see. An Anglican priest friend who likes to say mass in Latin said to me that it takes 100 years to fix the liturgy. This happened in England under Cromwell or Cramer (i think) and it took one hundred years to bring the liturgy back. As long as we keep the Tridentine rite alive it won't disapear. For myself, as crazy as it sounds, i think the answer is a combination of latin and english in the Tridentine rite would expand interest in it. But i am starting a blog to talk about such things http://sflatinmass.blogspot.com
I've thought that too, about combining Latin and English in the Tridentine rite. I've read translations of the Tridentine rite and think the rubrics and prayers are just beautiful. Since most poeple do not know latin, I think the beauty of the old rite would be much better conveyed if it were said in the vernacular, retaining Latin for some special parts like Agnus Dei, but the rubrics (priest facing the east during consecration, etc) were the same as pre-Vat II.
** it takes 100 years to fix the liturgy.**
I have never heard this, but knowing how slowly the church moves..................wait!
How did the Novus Ordo get accepted so quickly? (It hasn't even been 100 years! Maybe we haven't even seen what the Novus Ordo Mass is supposed to look like!