From my reading of Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Council Fathers intended, and rightly so, that the faithful should understand and actively participate at Mass. Now, that can certainly be done at the TLM. However, I think they wished, instead of educating the faithful on how this is to be done, they proposed a means to an end. Obviously, the ends are more important than the means. Now to actively participate DOES NOT mean that we need lay lectors, Extraordinary Ministers etc. It means that we must inwardly participate by reading the translation in our missals, and uniting ourselves with the Sacrifice of the Cross. It also means that we must understand what happens at Mass. The reforms were supposed aide ourselves in that. But, they failed. The ends of SC can certainly be fulfilled in the 1962 missal without any changes. That is what we must strive for. There need not be any changes (except for additions of saints and possible new prefaces) to the 1962 books. This is set forth by Summorum Pontificum. Some want a mass like the hybrid of 1965, that is not needed and I believe we don’t want the 1965 hybrid. We want a stable form of Mass, a Mass that the texts and rubrics won’t change, the TLM (the 1962 Missal without any changes). We need to be educated, not change the Mass. SC only proposed a means to an end. The end was good, not the means. NO change in the 1962 Liturgical books was need, is need, or will be needed.
