I guess I expected to see the beautiful Liturgy I am used to: the smells, the chants, the music. I understand that daily mass is less fancy then Sunday or Saturday mass.
The smell, the chants, the music is part of the Liturgical renewal: something for us, instead of the strict centering of Christ and Christ alone.
The TLM was mostly Low Mass, no incense, no chant, no music at all. Even in Sunday only one Mass was Missa Cantata or in Cathedrals and Seminaries High Mass. A compromise for the Sunday public Mass at the high altar was the Volk-Mass, with organ and vernacular hymns for the faithful. On weekdays the Cantor was usually supervising the opening of the school, was not present, the Mass was the affair of the priest and the Lord. The few old women present prayed the Rosary.
This is the Traditional Latin Mass: the priest and Jesus Christ, nothing else. The smell, the chant the music is the spirit which (although started earlier) dominated Vatican II: the importance of the faithful.
In my regular church on weekdays usually the pastor says the traditional Low Mass, (no chant, no music, not even vernacular reading and Gospel), the young priest says the mass accommodating to our time: chant, organ, vernacular reading and Gospel, even sermon. It is beautiful in this way. Interestingly they seem to reverse the rule celebrating the new form (this is a dual form parish).
