[B Knotts]

What concerns me is a younger generation that is not Latinized enough to make the Tridentine Mass truly reverent and meaningful. Most have not endured the rigors of learning Latin, speaking and studying in it. The language and culture of Cicero and the early church are foreign to them.

As Cardinal Egan has pointed out, Summorum Pontificum requires only that the priest be able to properly pronounce the words.

With practice and further study, priests new to Latin will gain a better understanding of the language, but this will take time. Saying the Mass in the extraordinary form will help in this regard.

[maryz]

IIRC, Cicero didn’t really use liturgical Latin!