I know that the Roman Rite is not the only form of liturgy celebrated in Latin. Other Latin liturgical rites used the language, and in some cases continue to do so. These include the Ambrosian Rite and the Mozarabic Rite. Some priests and communities continue to use non-Roman-Rite liturgies that have been generally abandoned, such as the Carmelite Rite and the Dominican Rite, celebrating them in Latin. Where these other Latin liturgical rites are in use, their celebration in the Latin language is sometimes referred to as "Latin Mass".

As a member of an Independent Catholic Church, considered in schism with the Roman Curia. I am with that small group that laments the loss of the Tridentine Mass. Our parish celebrates Novus Ordo and while I am comfortable with the liturgy, I find it wanting.
Luckily I can go across to to a Western Rite Antiochan Orthodox Church that celebrates the 1962 rite weekly as their High Mass. They have also formed a schola cantorum so the mass can be sung and not just said. After that service is a Novus Ordo service each week.
I think there is room in the Church for both rites and it doesn't need to be an either or situation.

+Pax,
Br. Cuthbert

Helen and Linda:

"If we really want to go back to 'tradition' we must go back to the time of Jesus when Eucharist was celebrated in homes at a table..."

Helen, "tradition" doesn't just mean "something done at the beginning." It means "something handed on." It wasn't long until the Eucharist was celebrated differently than at first. St. Paul had to rein in some abuses in Corinth in the mid-50s.

As for "people older than 40 will not understand or be able to pronounce the words," do you really think that everyone under 40 years old is too stupid to learn some new words or even PRONOUNCE them? How on earth do children learn a foreign language?

Latin was never supposed to be abandoned. Bl. Pope John XXIII and Vatican II affirm that.

Linda, if what you say is right (and I disagree), shouldn't the Church try to reach out to the "small but vocal and emotionally need[y] segment" of the faithful? Isn't that the generous, pastoral thing to do?

The Mass should not be ordinary or mundane, and I would bet that the reason the "Ordinary Form" of the Mass gets things like mimes and clowns and dances infused with it is because people are bored and want something exciting and entertaining. The Mass SHOULD be dramatic by its very nature (not because something is added to it) because of the sacred mysteries being entered into!

Thank you for bringing this forward. I suspected that it was a small, but vocal and emotionally needed segment of ordained and lay that were pushing for a returned to the Latin Mass. Based maybe on nostalgia but probably on frustration with the quiet,slow work of God that occurs mostly in the ordinary, mundane parts of life and worship. Much easier to get caught up and swept away (perhaps entertained?) in drama.