Why does "Latin Mass" seem like such a dirty word?

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I have trudged through several replies, but nowhere near all. I would like to say that one benefit of the Mass being in Latin is that if you are ever in another country the only part of the Mass that you won’t understand is the homily. This assumes that you would have your handy dandy missal with you. Personally, I think that a large problem contributing to the tridentine/novus ordo clash is liturgical abuse in the novus ordo…
 
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I would like to say that one benefit of the Mass being in Latin is that if you are ever in another country the only part of the Mass that you won’t understand is the homily.
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You might add if you go to the wrong mass in your own parish. It could be in Spanish or Vietnamese. Plus it might any of 184 N.O. masses allowed by all the options. It’s no guarantee that you will understand the mass in your own parish.
 
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Well, my friend, I have asked you specifically what I should call myself and never got an answer…
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How about “Catholic”?
or “Christian”?
or “Catholic Christian”?

“Deep Catholic” sounds like a bunch of dissident Catholics who rented a store-front and drew straws as to who was going to be the first archbishop of the “Deep Catholic Church.”

By the way, are you any way suggesting that all other Catholics (who do not do whatever it is you do) are “non-Deep” or “Shallow Catholics?” If you are, you new label is not only devisive, it’s also offensive…
 
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The DRE at my old parish told me straight off, “The people at the Grotto are weird.” Being from Cleveland, I had no clue what she meant. I didn’t know what the Grotto was.

NOW I know that this should have been a clue as to what kind of church I was in.
God Bless your Parish.
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Thanks for sharing! Count me in as one of the weird.
 
You know, some of the old shibboleths about the regular daily morning Mass not being the same as a Solemn High Mass just don’t hold water for me. As an altar boy in 1965, I regulary assisted with the 6 AM morning mass which was celebrated at the rectory because the church hadn’t been built yet. The only participants were Father and me. Perhaps, for me, it was even more reverent simply because there was only two of us gathered in Jesus’ name. Quick Masses, you betcha! I won’t name the parish in New Orleans but their Saturday afternoon NO vigil mass was a guaranteed 25 minute exercise in 1970. I am ashamed to say that I went simply to get it over with because it was a) quick and b) I would not have to suffer on Sunday having to listen to the “muppet music” or the glad handing at the 9:30 Mass with my folks.

And no, though I could go to an indult TLM, I am a member of a cathedral parish where the NO is conducted with the utmost reverence and the choir routinely sings reverent music without resorting to the a’strummin and a’swayin. We drive 25 miles for this and it is worth it.
 
In my RCIA class I’d asked if our parish had any Latin masses. One of the assistant instructors said, “Oh yes, we have a large number of Latin parishioners. We have Masses in Spanish every Sunday at 1pm and 3pm!”
 
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In my RCIA class I’d asked if our parish had any Latin masses. One of the assistant instructors said, “Oh yes, we have a large number of Latin parishioners. We have Masses in Spanish every Sunday at 1pm and 3pm!”
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I’m sorry - I could not help but laugh at this.
 
Well, it was all I could do to not guffaw in the lady’s face.

On a more serious note, though, on another occasion in class she put forth her opinion that she didn’t think Jesus realized He was the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God, when He was a child or a young man, that it probably only dawned on Him when John baptized Him.
 
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