[Judith Anne]

Well they had all the church services in Latin until recently, so no one knew what they were saying, and now I’ve read where they are going to reinstate the practice.

That was probably a vast conspiracy against the separated brethren, to confuse them. (joke)

Perhaps most posters are too young to realize that Latin was taught in public and parochial schools well into the 60s. *sigh* It is more recently becoming part of the curriculum in the better public schools again.

[1000 silverlings]

Really? Because I attended a Catholic school for 2 years in the 60’s, never heard no Latin. It was optional in high school though, which wasn’t Catholic

[RnMomof7]

Perhaps most posters are too young to realize that Latin was taught in public and parochial schools well into the 60s. *sigh* It is more recently becoming part of the curriculum in the better public schools again.

Judith I was around then and no one other than the religious,alter BOYS (memorized the responses) and elite knew latin ( I attended a private girls school, so I took latin and still could not follow the mass..too much time on declensions I guess) ......beside that the priest had his back to you because what he was doing was a holy mystery or something..there were no mikes so you had to watch what they were doing and try to follow it in Latin and English missal and ya always fell behind..but when the bells rang you knew where to turn again. Little worship going on and alot of translations :)