[buccaneer81]

Then they took away the altar rail, then civilians dispensed communion...it was a huge mistake to be ‘trendy.’

[magritte]

I’ll tell you, as a child, the altar rail, the priest, the songs, the text, is seemed so ... serious.

Then my friend’s mom was giving me communion. She liked porcelain cats. Unserious.

[Cronos]

I agree. Last sunday I went for an English mass after months (normally attend the Polish mass or Latin) and it was saccharine sweet in the songs, the "kumbaya" effect etc. surprisingly in Polish it's a lot more "MALE" -- the organ singer is male and the songs are not the sweetie-sweetie, "Jesus my home-boy" song but strong ones

And men sing and participate because they don't need choir-boy voices but can be men.

I'm going to stay away from English language masses.