AS an avid lover of church music, I totally agree with Tony Kelly (HAS, June 29) that the demise of the Latin liturgy was a big mistake.
If church music (of all denominations) does not impart to the listener a feeling of spirituality, then it has no meaning.
I listened many years ago to a tape of Russian Orthodox choral music and it took me to another plane of human existence.
Fortunately, there are many tapes available of church music sung as it was composed.
I doubt the Vatican will revert to the Latin and it was a retrograde step to change to depressing modernity.
Hugh Pender, Darlington.
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