Simply Saying the Novus Ordo in Latin Is NOT the Solution
In the wake of
Well-meant or not, this idea is an absolute non-starter, for several reasons.
First, the old and new missals have surprisingly little overlap. All one has to do is compare them side-by-side to see that both the Order of Mass and the Propers of the Mass are largely divergent. The classic article here is Matthew Hazell’s, demonstrating that only 13% of the orations of the old missal are found intact in the new one (and not 17%, the already-low figure at which Fr. Anthony Cekada had arrived, but which turns out on closer inspection to be too generous).1
As I demonstrate in
Novus Ordo and TLM Side-By-Side
An acquaintance of mine explained to her ten-year-old son, an avid altar server, that the local bishop, when he announced the end of the TLM, offered to substitute for it a Novus Ordo in Latin,
A virtuous man looks for a wife who is beautiful on the inside as well as on the outside, with the former — the internal character — valued most of all. He’s not interested
At the …
Is this picture what Leo was referring to when he said, "Some forms of worship do not foster communion with others and can numb our hearts"? No, because here we have a cow, pigs, a donkey, what might be a horse, and presumably people all in communion with each other.