why use a language that so few in the laity understand and which relegates it to a “hear a sound, make a sound” session?
...what a flagrantly ignorant statement...
Don’t do it with the present day “speaking in tongues” where nobody has a clue what them guttural noises are.
...are you seriously supposing that I and others who regularly attend the TLM have no clue what is going on...do you doubt that a human being has the capacity to learn a few phrases of a foreign language that is for the most part unchanging from week to week, and can easily read with a hand held missal...?
...is it your contention that humankind needs every single thing in the world spoon fed to it, or it will understand nothing...what a bleak vision...
That's about as useful as those speaking foreign languages to me as a child in the church. Why should a child have to go through the process of learning a new language before he can start really understanding what is being said? I find it a bit ironic that children go through First Communion and Confirmation while being pretty much in the dark due to lack of understanding/good teaching. How many, like me way back when, leave the Catholic Church in their teens because they end up with more questions than answers?
BTW - my Sunday School "teachers" had the same apparent attitude as you expressed.