[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.

[Catholicguy]

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

They still can. The Mass is the Mass is the Mass. It is the action of Jesus offering Himself as a Sacrifice of propitiation to God on our behalf through the Priesthood He established. What has changed is the Language of the Mass. Remember, Latin was the vernacular of the day. Pope Siricius changed the Greek Mass into the Latin he loved and we retained only the Kyrie from the Greek Mass. Unity is about worship, doctrine and authority and there is nothing sacred about Latin