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Sue Korlan's avatar

Personally, ad populum is why I prefer the NO. I am a very visual person and staring at someone's back makes me feel separated from God, whereas watching the Consecration, in particular, induces fervor in my soul. I'm fluent in Latin so the language doesn't make any difference.

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Todd Voss's avatar

This is very interesting as it may set precedence for other liturgy "wars" elsewhere in the Church. To me it is beginning to look like each dioscese or even each parish should set its practice of VP or AO. I am generally strongly in favor of catholicity within the celebration of a rite (and ending the excessive optionality of the NO), but I would grant an exception here. I don't see this variety as chaos. It is unfortunate of course, but the Holy See caved in the late 1960"s to VP and that let the horse out of the barn.

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