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Entry: A Silence That Speaks Volumes Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/a_silence_that_speaks_volumes#7970 Post contents: The Latin Mass was a symptom of what was the problem that confronted the Church: the society had changed around it, so that the answers that the Church gave were not put in a way that they could be understood. When the Church came into being Latin was the vernacurla. Everyone understood what the priest said and could follow it. Then with time, less and less people understood what was said, and a wall began to rise between the priesthood and the faithful, contributing to the idea that church was unconnected to real life. It was high time that the Mass was said so that the faithful could connect with it. A lot of things were like that. Since communication depends on the ability of the hearer to undestand what is said, it was incumbent that the Church change its expressions to make itsefl understood, and that it also understood the circumnstances of the hearer to use the right turns of phrase and the right metaphors. The II Vatican Council was meant to do that. Of course, when you try to do in a few months the labor that should have been carried out through the years, of course, you make quite a number of mistakes. You catch the obvious, and the not so obvious come back to bite you in the ass. But it needed doing. Sent at: 2008 07 06