The Traditional Latin Mass Explained

by Prosper Guéranger

If all someone has ever known is the “mini-Mass” or “Mass Lite” — that is, the vernacular Pauline paraliturgy, celebrated horizontally in a closed circle, denuded of nearly every sign of the sacred — he will look at you with glazed eyes, not knowing what you could possibly be saying: “Center my life on what?”

Absolutely.