[The Great RJ]

Sadly it would seem many American priests in the 1960s had their own ideas and filled the mass with thumping guitars, hootenanny hymns and blue jeans instead of vestments. I was pleasantly surprised when I was in France in the early 1970s that the mass was still largely in Latin, the hymns sung in French were dignified and not a guitar was in sight. However at the Abbey of Solesmes, a Benedictine monastery near Sable, France, I experienced the Gregorian chant in all its glory.

[defconw]

Don't remember the 60’s, but we never really had any priests in the 70’s- or 80’s who allowed things to get out of hand. The only thing I really like that is not always done is the bells. But I hear them in my head so i guess it matters not.

[miss marmelstein]

I've attended Mass in Paris in the early 2000s. Same thing. The French do it right. Not only that but one of the parishioners got up from the pew to hand me a missal. And they say the French are rude!