This kind of comment annoys me. It is as if one should not expect to find the Mass celebrated in exactly the manner laid down by the Church, and we should be glad we have any kind of Mass at all.
People, like me, who find it intolerable that liturgical abuses of any kind should take place do not attend Mass with “the GIRM in one hand and a checklist in the other.” We attend in the expectation that we will be able to worship God in the manner authorized by His Church, and are hurt and disappointed when we find it to be otherwise. When one knows how Mass should be celebrated, anything contrary jumps out and hits you. There is no need for a checklist, the jar is grating!! Furthermore, we, the laity, are entitled to a true and authentic Liturgy (in other words, a Liturgy celebrated in accordance with the GIRM).
Comments like those quoted above are uncharitable.
