[vox_freedom]

"It is a witness of antiquity of which a Catholic may well be proud that in Mass to-day we are still used to the very words that Anselm, Gregory, Leo sang in their cathedrals."

Why in the world should anybody care???

Vatican II cared enough to call for "a pride of place" in the retention of Gregorian chant in the "new" liturgy...And my point was not about antiquity - that was just the end of the long quote from another poster's source (that I felt emboldened my earlier perspective) - it is about the tradition of the liturgy. There is a difference in appreciation from where we came rather than appreciation for the sake of being old.
But we probably disagree on that, too.

[Wonder Warthog]

"...it is about the tradition of the liturgy. There is a difference in appreciation from where we came rather than appreciation for the sake of being old."

Uh, I restate my point about Aramaic and Greek, which is "where we came from" even more so than Latin. The fixation on Latin is not supported by either the history of the Church, nor by Church doctrine. Use of the vernacular IS supported by the history of the Church.