That's were you are wrong. Give us younger Catholics some credit, some of us actually want a religion. All men know what religion is and what it is not. This generation is starved for it. You can see it in the rise of neo-pagan spiritualist movements. It's so hard to describe because our modern world is trained to look down on the romantic element of anything, especially religion. What we need, and what many of us are aware that we want and are lacking, though not all realize it or put it in so many words, is something with a great and terrible sense of the sublime, of pious ceremony, with an ever-so-slight touch of oriental mysticism, of something frankly courageous and triumphant! For all that we have to have a language other then the mundane vernacular for our solemnities.
The intransigence I've found more from the older generation. Someone like Wonder Warthog who despite what he says, is certainly opposed to even the option. They do because they are particularly attached to the “revolution.” And they know that the mundane cannot compete when one has that wonderful option! Even when I do find those of my own generation who are afraid, it is mostly a fear that they are missing out, but don't want to admit it. Mostly though they don't particularly see a problem with some having the option because, being young, they are not tied emotionally or philosophically to the revolution.
I understand what you're saying. I didn't realize that younger people would be interested in a Latin mass, since most of them have never experienced one. I thought it would be the old-timers who are hoping for its return.
What we need, and what many of us are aware that we want and are lacking, though not all realize it or put it in so many words, is something with a great and terrible sense of the sublime, of pious ceremony, with an ever-so-slight touch of oriental mysticism, of something frankly courageous and triumphant!
Beautifully said.