Article: The Latin Mass.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

My dad knows and still remembers the words of the Latin Mass and in many ways yearns for those days. I have lived long enough to remember the Latin Mass. I also learned the responses as an altar boy. But I harbor no such romantic feelings for the fortress wall surrounded by a feudal moat that separates "us from them." However much I may sympathize with my dad, I think that he and others have missed the point of the very purpose of the Mass: the sharing of community at the table with the Christ of the Eucharist. The other controversies about how the priest is facing with us at the altar or away, or even kneeling at a railing, is not the issue for me. I prefer the "baby" but ...

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