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Pope John XXIII changed the language of the Mass to the local vernacular.
Yes
Pope John XXIII was the one who set up the Second Vatican Council, improving certain aspects of the Catholic religion, such as changing the language of the Mass from Latin to whatever vernacular language of each particular country, that is, Mass in Germany would be spoken in German, Mass in England and the U.S. would be spoken in English, etc.
He said Mass, or attended Mass, every single day that his health permitted.
The New Year's Eve Mass was at 8 am, and the Vigil Mass was at 6 pm.
Pope John XXIII convened the Council and Pope Paul VI made the changes to the Mass.
Choir robes were not worn when I attended Tridentine mass before the Vatican II council. They are more a feature of Protestant Sunday services. But clerics and other prelates wore elaborate liturgical vestments -- cassocks, albs, tunics, surplices and chasubles -- as they still do today when celebrating.
You should as someone from the following orders: The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Prince or The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter These 2 orders celebrate the Tridentine Mass. Also, ask a priest who was conferred the Sacrament of Holy Orders prior to 1963 (or so)...They'll know!
Generally, priests face the congregation during Mass except in those parishes that still observe the Latin Tridentine Mass where the priest faces the tabernacle and has his back to the people.
Latin was the primary language of the Mass in the Roman Catholic Church until the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. This was known as the Latin Mass or Tridentine Mass. After the council, the Mass was translated into local languages to make it more accessible to the faithful.
You must be thinking of the Latin Ite missa est from the old Tridentine formula. I believe this means Go, you are dismissed. Go the mass has begun is not said at the end of the vernacular mass, either.
Definitely NO Definitely YES as having his back to the congregation is part and parcel of that old, outdated, 16th century mass.