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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#31928 Post contents: John, OK post, but the more I hear from the Traditionalist wing about the glories of the old rite. The more I think the real problem is with reverence. And frankly, the decline of reverence or even respect in Western culture for anything except non western culture has been a much larger phenomenon than what is chronicled in the liturgical abuses since V2. You mention things like men in suits with eyes averted and kneeling and extraordinary ministers swaggering past the tabernacle. But is this really a result of the change in the mass structure? I can understand that there are difficulties with some of the translations of the Eucharistic prayers and I can understand that you don't like the informality of RC churches today and I can understand wanting to hear the glorious chant again, but whining about a loss of reverence is hardly making me want to switch back to the mass in a language I don't speak and can't share with my three kids under 5. Sent at: 2008 11 20