NO have always implied that people are just too stupid to "understand" the Latin Mass. Lay people should be insulted. My father had a 4th grade education (dropped out to work for the family) but knew what every word in the Tridentine Mass means ... even if he couldn't conjugate a verb.
We were having conversations with the local NO priest, a youngish Indian who knows very little except how to repeat rules and slogans. (No Aussie aspirants) He refused any literature we offered him.
"In the old days the people could not understand the Latin, now the young ones understand and they love going to Mass." Of course. the answer to that was "then why aren't they going?" He is "doing up the church (major work and expense) for the future generations. What future generation?
The only Latin Mass in our diocese is once a month, offered in disobedience to the bishop and hidden, by the Anglican rite ordinariate. I made the mistake of going once (in our former diocese). They prayed for the queen during the Mass.
This dear lady may even still attend a TLM, (this was posted by a priest) but she obviously loves it. She believes every word she sings, I am sure.
Topic: Old African Woman remembers her Latin (Read 933 times)