Saw the whole movie. Yes the ending was depressing. The abbot lost
his faith in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and in Jesus Christ.
The ending should not have depressing and should have been an
opportunity in advancing the Faith as Jesus real presence on the
Altar and a life of prayer.
We do not obey Superiors that orders you to believe in heretical and
condemned beliefs. The Abbot should have stood his ground.
That was the way it was in 1973 and for a good long time before
and afterwards. The only way to have a Latin Mass was an
independent Priests such as Father Donahue at his Arcadia
and San Pedro Chapels, Father Frederick Schell, SJ in Garden Grove. CA.
I was advised by a Priest who was ordained in 1940 in the confessional
not to attend the Latin Mass because it was considered a Pagan
ritual.