Allowing Catholics to pray in their local languages “was truly a courageous act by the church to draw closer to the people of God,” Pope Francis told a crowd gathered outside. “This is important for us, to follow the Mass this way. And there is no going back…Whoever goes back is mistaken.”
It is good to have this definitively clarified. Sometimes I think people have mistaken the adjectives ‘Ordinary’ and ‘Extaordinary’ form as meaning inferior and superior forms. In context ordinary is meant as the usual or common and extraordinary as apart from the usual or common as in distinct or peculiar. I believe that most people are happy to accommodate lovers of the Latin Mass within the Church, but get weary of being told that the ordinary form is base, crude, ugly and all those other negative adjectives that are used to condemn it.
