Letters: I'm lucky to have access to both the old and new Mass

The best of both worlds

SIR – I am not young, but I am new in the Catholic Church. Consequently, unlike Francis Beswick (Letters, August 9), I had no experience of the Tridentine Mass. Studying the liturgy and Eucharist, I read that the Novus Ordo Mass is said, by some, to obscure the sacrificial signification of the Mass. In order to examine this statement for myself, I began to attend the Extraordinary Form of the Mass and, in doing so, have gained a greater appreciation of the depth of meaning of the Mass (see also Fr Pittam’s article in the same issue).