As for Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist proliferating beyond all sense and decorum, I agree with you. As long as there are priests and deacons, they should be out there doing their Sacramental duty. I myself have more than once declined to volunteer as an EM because I think it's even more inappropriate for females to step in and do a role of the ordained. Not because females aren't devout and holy, but because we should not be pushing the edges of ordained ministry.
Nix to "altar girls" too. (There! I said it!)
As for Saturday evening becoming part of Sunday, that's actually more legit. The Church has from ancient days celebrated Vigils, precisely because the earliest (Jewish and Christian) practices regarded the day as being from sundown to sundown.
The fact that it's convenient for some, shouldn't be an argument against it.
I'm in our parish's newly-organized Schola Cantorum, doing the singing for the Latin Mass. So if you want to do your part to bring back the good old ways and the good old days, Come Aww-w-n-n-n- Down, buddy! VENITE ADOREMUS!
I was a Latin language altar boy in the mid-50s . . . we had 4 positions to practice for: Paten [or diskos] (which was the most prestigious); Book (had to carry the heavy book and bookstand from one side of the priest to the other), Bells (got to ring the bells during certain times of the Mass), and Dead End (nothing to do but kneel and stand up . . . only for the newbies).
Agree 100% with females behind the altar during Mass . . . no reason for them . . . but times have changed.
The priest, whose index finger tip and thumb tip were sacred during the Mass and up to then being washed after Communion, were the only part of the body of anyone in the church that could tough the Host. The index finger of the priest was touched to the tip of the thumb throughout that part of the Mass until they were washed by the altar boys over the chalice after Communion.
Brings back memories . . . good memories.