[ELS]

I suspect (and this is a gut reaction) that there are graces in the universal saying of the latin Mass that we have been shorted. There might be special graces we gain from the saying of the new Mass in vernacular too but Latin is the official language of the Church ...

Interesting idea, I never thought of it that way. One used to be able to go to a Roman Catholic Church anywhere in the world and experience the same (universal) Mass. IMHO, that has been a great loss.

[Domestic Church]

"One used to be able to go to a Roman Catholic Church anywhere in the world and experience the same (universal) Mass. "

Think of the perspective of God in this...from the CCC, "To God all moments in time are present in their immediacy." The latin universal Mass had a language unity that encompassed more than one moment,it transcended time as every Mass does. The Mass I received my First Communion in was said in the same Latin as the one St. Therese received her First Communion in, think of all the voices saying that together (over time but in God's timelessness.) When we say our vernacular Mass, the prayers are the same and are joined but they aren't in the language of the Church and the language our Saints prayed in for centuries. Try to picture all the different languages at once for the thirty some years.

I am not saying we should just go back to the Latin Mass but even in my area, the Philadelphia Archdiocese, there is only one Church that I know of where it is being said. That seems odd to me.