Couple of points I would like to make... even though I left the RCC I will defend it from unfair attacks.
#1 For the 40,000,000th f***ing time, Latin is a FORMAT for Mass... the Mass doesn't need to be done in Latin to be a Latin Mass. The readings from the scriptures were NEVER done in Latin (at least not in modern times) and nor was the sermon... only the parts that are repeated every single Mass... older people I talk to say that they understood it just fine, because they heard it their whole lives. It seems that only people who were young during the era when the transition was made complain about not being able to understand it. Second, the whole rationale for using Latin was so that a Catholic could go anywhere in the world and still understand what was going on. It was UNIVERSAL... which is what the word "Catholic" means.
#2 What kinda backwords area do you live in that you can't find a time to attend Mass? Erie is only a small city and we have Masses that run pretty much around the clock from Saturday night to Sunday at 7:00PM. There is always at least one Church having Mass during that time period in the area... you just have to not be lazy and acctually look for one. I know the situation almost anywhere in Europe is the same. "I can't get up on Sunday" is no excuse.
I knew that didn't like the church in Erie, but there is always byzantine!
