It has come to my attention that a message I postd to the list several
months back was misleading. I no longer remember exactly the context
of the original message, but since people in the know have come across
my message in the Medieval Religion archives, I wanted to inset this
correction for the record:
I stated that in some parishes in the United States, the Mass was
never celebrated in the vernacular, and cited St.Agnes Parish in St.
Paul, Minnesota, as an example.
It would have been more accurate to say "never celebrated exclusively
in the vernacular"--the point being that an unbroken practice of
celebrating Mass in Latin was sustained there, from before Vatican II
to the present, but that Mass was also celebrated in the vernacular
after Vatican II.
Here endeth the retractio. Mea culpa.
Dennis Martin
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