PabloSerna said:
I bring up my spiritual development with the Dominicans not to brag, but to make a point that I am not acting or saying anything on my own. As you already know, Catholics are not free to interpret scripture, much less, doctrine on their own. We follow the magisterium.
Here is a link to the 1963 Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy. It's not a long document, worth the read to get a better understanding that part of Vatican II was to change from the Latin to the vernacular "Because of the use of the mother tongue in the administration of the sacraments and sacramentals can often be of considerable help to the people, this use is to be extended..."
What is happening in the RCC world, is what is happening on this very thread - we are dividing ourselves into groups and being derailed from the mission at hand.
Keep reading. It never calls for a full departure from Latin notrdoes it ever call for the whole mass to be in the vernacular. It calls for the vernacular in limited situations with proper approvals.
From Sacrosanctum Concilium
Paragraph 36- 36. 1. Particular law remaining in force, the use of the Latin language is to be preserved in the Latin rites.
Paragraph 54- In Masses which are celebrated with the people, a suitable place may be allotted to their mother tongue. This is to apply in the first place to the readings and "the common prayer," but also, as local conditions may warrant, to those parts which pertain to the people, according to the norm laid down in Art. 36 of this Constitution.
Nevertheless steps should be taken so that the faithful may also be able to say or to sing together in Latin those parts of the Ordinary of the Mass which pertain to them.
And wherever a more extended use of the mother tongue within the Mass appears desirable, the regulation laid down in Art. 40 of this Constitution is to be observed.
Paragraph 101- In accordance with the centuries-old tradition of the Latin rite, the Latin language is to be retained by clerics in the divine office. But in individual cases the ordinary has the power of granting the use of a vernacular translation to those clerics for whom the use of Latin constitutes a grave obstacle to their praying the office properly. The vernacular version, however, must be one that is drawn up according to the provision of Art. 36.
