Go to Latin Mass, you will find what you seek.
I grew up hearing the latin mass and I got nothing out of it, but boredom. If people would have understood what God was telling them, they would have been better people. Why would not hearing and understanding God word be better?
I am sorry that you were bored at Latin Mass. No saint has ever found it to be so. Please try it again, read and pray the beautiful and ancient prayers by which we worship God. Nothing is required of you but to pray, to worship and listen to God. In a missal the Latin is on one side and the English on the other, it makes everything easy.
A lot of people say that. Fr. Groeschel said that the mumbling way priests said Mass back in the day was not very great. He wasn’t against it, but...
On the other hand, latin is the language of the Church. It is an otherwise unused language, so no one can move in and corrupt the meaning of the Mass and no national favoritism can be shown.
A priest, I think also Fr. Groeschel, said, a few years ago, the enemy hates Latin. It’s nice then to play the Mass or Gregorian chant in the house.
EWTN just showed the cardinals praying the rosary in latin at vespers in prep for the conclave. No no one nation would be favored, among other things. My missal has the Lord’s Prayer and the Hail Mary in latin so I am able to follow along.
The priest is very reverent and clear. They process and close off the altar. The priest faces in the same direction as the congregation. So there’s never an expectation and inevitable disappointment of being entertained. THat’s what lunch hour is for.
I always want people to see at our school, the kids file into the sanctuary on fridays for the Mass in Latin. They pray along, learning the language, realizing they are praying the same prayers that they do in english on sundays.
When the boys chant in four part harmony during communion, when they would rather be pushing each other around or causing trouble for some teacher, it makes you cry, really.
Do not feel bad, having grown up NOT knowing much about Latin as a language of prayer let alone go to a Latin Mass, the newer mass is all I know and this is one who is in her 50’s.
If you are dissatisfied with the quality of the priests at your local parish because they were too liberal, vote with your feet. Others feel the same way; you can join with them, or drive to another parish. The resources are amazing--online Divine Office, online video homilies, TV, radio, instructional materials. We have almost an embarrassment of riches. But leaving the Church and worshipping elsewhere, which implicitly means denying or disbelieving in the teachings of the Church and adopting the heretical teachings of some other, man-made outfit, isn't the way to cope with bad homilies.
Here is a video by Dr Scott Hahn that absolutely convicts us on the need to get back to Mass. The last few minutes, starting at 1:06, are overwhelming:Hahn at Steubenville If you watch this, I think you'll realize that your boredom--that is, your failure to detect entertainment value in Christ's actual Presence before us--is absolutely at the bottom of the list of life's priorities. This made me go running back to mass the morning after I saw it, chastened but grateful. I hope it will have the same effect on you.