With all due reverence and respect for Rev. Mother, this doesn’t make sense (probably because it’s a subjective opinion):
*"Latin was the perfect language for the Mass. It’s the language of the Church, ***Factually accurate ***which allows us to pray a verbal prayer without distraction. ***I don’t see how one’s language is a distraction. Understanding is a distraction? ***See, the purpose of the Mass is to pray and to be associated with the crucifixion and with that glorious banquet that we partake of in Holy Communion. He is there. I don’t see how that isn’t also true in the vernacular. But so much is spoiled in the vernacular. ***Again, with respect and reverence (I quite love her), Mother’s subjective opinion. **
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“During the Latin Mass you had the missal if you wanted to follow it in English. It was almost mystical. ***In the vernacular, I don’t have to use a book, which I find very distracting. ***It gave you an awareness of heaven, of the awesome humility of God who manifests Himself in the guise of bread and wine. The love that He had for us. His desire to remain with us, is simply awesome. ***This comes through better in Latin? How? ***You could concentrate on that love, because you weren’t distracted by your own language. ***So if my grandfather says,“Ego amo te” or “Ego te amo” to my grandmother, she wouldn’t be distracted? That’s going to mean more than “I love you?” That’s the second time that’s come up and it still doesn’t make sense. ***You could go anywhere in the world and you always knew what was going on. ***Agreed, but in the balance, in Jefferson, Iowa, or Talty, Texas, I think the vernacular also has enormous benefits for the faithful. ***It was contemplative because as the Mass was going on you could close your eyes and visualize what really happened. You could feel it. ***I can do the same with the vernacular mass. ***You could look to the east and realize that God had come and was really present. The way it is today with the priest facing the people, it’s something between the people and the priest. Too often it’s just some kind of get-together, and Jesus is all but forgotten.” ***I can see the rest of it, I suppose, the ad orientum, etc. **
