[Desdemona]

Martinis are more substantial than anything else.

It's not the NO, necessarily, for me. It's the descent into mediocrity. It's the "dumbing down" of the language and the art and the meaning, that's my problem. It's gotten worse in the last 25 years and sinking further.

Snob? Maybe. City-girl? Definitely. Extremely high standards? Absolutely. And I'm not lowering them for anyone. I don't care what they think of me.

I have to get up in the morning and have an opera performance afterward. Menotti isn't my favorite, but it looks good on the resume.

[sinkspur]

It's the "dumbing down" of the language and the art and the meaning, that's my problem. It's gotten worse in the last 25 years and sinking further.

Well, most Catholics would disagree with you.

In addition, the "language" is what it is. It's always more exotic and mysterious to pray and sing in a language no one understands. But, at the end of the day, walking out of Mass totally non-plussed, but feeling good, is not "meaning". It's "feeling good," which is mediocrity in the extreme.

As I said, if you prefer the Latin liturgy, you should seek it out.

Griping that the NO is not to your liking when you have a choice is like the neurotic who's mad because 2+2 doesn't equal 5.