text: I can understand - somewhat.  It's what I grew up in.  At times it was solemn and beautiful, if unintelligible, because I took it seriously. Largely, it took itself so seriously that the "redeemed" were irrelevant. Theater. Community - not.
  The Vatican II liturgy came - for me - when I was in the seminary. We did both, but the, "intentionality"(the only way I can describe it), the inclusiveness won me over totally. The transition was from observer to participant and the "With Him, in Him..." took on an entirely new significance.
  After "reentry" I was terribly disappointed with the liturgy - either way.
  The beauty of the Latin rite is as a museum piece. Without "community" liturgy, in any language or "style" loses the humanity of Christ incarnate-risen, and when the "body" dies the spirit is close behind. 
  "Community" seems to be precisely what the Church is moving away from.  It either doesn't understand or doesn't care. They hide in the "of", unprepared to "sacrifice" for the Mass.