[Bernard]

The Catholic mass got boring when the church went away from Latin. Suddenly you realized that the priest from Poland or India doesn't speak English very well. On the other hand, nobody had an accent when saying mass in Latin.

That was also about the time almost every choir director decided that they needed to be like James Taylor; feature guitars and tambourines, and make every hymn sound like a one-timer celebrity singing the national anthem for the first time.

[Bernard]

And, that was also about the time when you had to explain the joke: “The number in New Joisy is Et cum spiritu tuo.”

[AU72]

I was in high school when Vatican II turned masses into ‘hootenannies’ taking out the Gregorian Chants which I loved.