[The Latin Mass] made me bitter and arrogant. It made me think I had the more ancient, therefore holier, therefore better way to practice my faith. I would make jokes about the “Novus Ordo” and speculate about the day the church might even do away with vernacular liturgy, considering it a failed experiment.
The Latin Mass didn't make you do anything. You chose to feel as you did. I grew up with the Latin Mass. It happens to be better crafted than the Novus Ordo, which is as pedestrian as it gets. If they wanted the Mass in English, well it was translated in plenty of missals. And "It is truly meet and just, right and availing unto salvation" is a hell of lot better than "It is right and just."
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