The abundant writing and speculation about relaxing the permissions required to pray the traditional Latin Mass as it was in the 1962 Missal have provided an interesting insight for me courtesy of a caller to last Friday's 'Catholic Answers' radio show. The caller (from 47 minutes into the podcast) relates that she 'lived through' the change from Latin to the vernacular, and believes she'll have to 'live through' the 'reversal' from the vernacular back to Latin.
Notwithstanding the merits of (or lack thereof) the caller's concerns, it did cause me to consider the upheaval many of the faithful must have experienced with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. That awareness goes a long way to explain why this is taking longer than some expect, and why the Vatican is proceeding carefully.
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