[Buckeye McFrog]

I don’t agree with this. I think the Latin Mass should be offered for those who appreciate and understand it.

It cannot however be the primary tool of evangelization. You have to reach people in a language they can understand.
That being said, I don’t really see what is achieved by banning it.

[piusv]

You have to reach people in a language they can understand.

So for hundreds of years, the Church was wrong to have a Latin liturgy? Really, think about what you are saying here.

[irishjuggler]

It cannot however be the primary tool of evangelization. You have to reach people in a language they can understand.

Well, then it must have been some sort of miracle that the Spanish, French and Portuguese-speaking missionaries offering nothing but Latin Mass managed to successfully evangelize entire continents of native populations.

[flaglady47]

“It cannot however be the primary tool of evangelization. You have to reach people in a language they can understand.”

How did the Catholic Christians through the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and up through today manage to figure out their religion and relate to it when it was always the Latin Mass that they heard. My, how did they ever manage to understand or love their religion? How ever did the religion spread throughout the world when the Mass was not given in the local language. Must have been magic.