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Entry: The Folk Mass is Ended... Go in Peace Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_folk_mass_is_ended_go_in_peace#31897 Post contents: I had lunch with the late Cardinal Hickey and was grousing about Latin and chant and he said read the documents. It was a revelation. Rome wants the Mass parts in English translated to conform more closely to the Roman Missal and the Bishops can't agree on that. There is talk of B16 asking the Dicastry in charge of Divine Worship to investigate the feasibility of returning Latin to at least the key parts of the Sacraments. Unfortunately my pro-Latin pastor died and his replacement is the first priest younger than many of the parishioners since the V2 dropped on us. I was asking about Latin within days of his arrival and he said he is of the middle generation of priests that had no Latin. Our 70/80-something priests were trained in the Extraordinary Form. There is massive reluctance on the part of the active people to do any Latin. Especially the musicians. I refer to myself as a renegade cultists for this reason. I just pray the reconnection with the past continues apace. I loved John Paul but Papa Ratizinger is amazing. They say people went to Rome to see John Paul but they now come to Rome to listen to Pope Benedict. Sent at: 2008 11 20