text: As I've written before, it is high time the term 'Novus Ordo' was retired from service. It has no official status and, when used by the Society of St Pius X and others of like mind, always has a pejorative connotation.
  
  I belong to the last generation of Catholics who still remember the Mass as it was before 1965. I respect that liturgy for what it was and meant to those who came before us, especially those who lived under persecution, but have no desire to return to it. The world has moved on since 1965. So has the Church. To use the biblical metaphor, we cannot go back to Egypt.