[Verginius Rufus]

I learned the responses to the Latin Mass pre-Vatican II and do not remember any altar boys deliberately mispronouncing any of the Latin words (accidentally getting the wrong endings on some of the words, perhaps). The Latin Mass is beautiful.

But perhaps the "Suscipiat" could have done with fewer sibilants.

[namvolunteer]

The stumbling block for many a Pre-Vatican II altar boy:
Suscipiat Dominus sacrificium de manibus tuis, ad laudem et gloriam nominis sui, ad utilitatem quoque nostram, totiusque Ecclesiae suae sanctae.
(May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of His name, for our good and the good of all his Holy Church).
In truth, when you mastered it, it rolled fluently. If not, it sounded like a pair of dice and five dimes in your mouth.

[VermiciousKnid]

I say this as a mother who drilled her two boys on their responses for our parish’s weekly (Sunday) EF Mass:

The “Suscipiat” made me want to pluck out my own eyes and feed them to the dog for lunch. AHHHH!

But we made it through, and both boys know and understand it all now.

Regards,

PS: For some reason, the older men in our congregation almost always say the Suscipiat out loud during Mass. I think they do it in sympathy for the altar boys.