I was told Latin was banned from our Diocese

My priest banned me from singing any of the Propers in 2015 because "the people don't understand them". What he meant by that is unclear--either the "important people" didn't want to hear the Latin or that no one knew why I was doing it. I never received any complaints (although one time while I was singing an Introit before Mass an usher got in my ear and "ordered" me to stop before I was done--I fininshed it) and only had one request for a translation.

I just find it a touch ironic that any of the required Sequences (in Latin) are allowed (tolerated?). This priest also uses "O Salutaris Hostia" and "Tantum Ergo Sacramentum" during Eucharistic Adoration, and knows "Salve Regina". Granted, we all have our inconsistencies and don't realize them many times. I just wonder if he does.

Allowing as how an oecumenical council (Vatican II), the highest authority in the Church, above which is no greater authority other than the pope, has commanded that Latin be preserved and that the people should know their parts of the mass in Latin, there does not exist authority for anyone or any entity to 'ban' it. Authority for that simply does not exist. There may be raw self-willed power to impede or disallow it, but doing so is to exceed one's lawful authority, to be willfully disobedient, the act of a renegade, inherently unlawful and tyrannical - and, it is certainly not 'Vatican II'.... in 'spirit' or not.

At what point in the Mass would you use Marian hymnody during the month of May?

Something similar to Mme above from my perspective - not just with Marian devotion, but with the devotion of St. Joseph, the Trinity, the Sacred Heart, the Holy Name, the Holy Ghost, etc.. Why limit motets or hymns or chants that are devotional to one single feast if we are called to that devotion throughout? There may be more Marian in May, but not to the exclusion of the remainder of the year; more Sacred Heart in June, but not to the detriment of the season as a whole.

Clearly I don't do something for Advent in Eastertide... but something for Holy Name (for example) throughout the year with no problems whatsoever.

As for placement at Mass, as Mme suggests above - before, during, and after. :) Again, I'll typically have at least 1-2 Eucharistic pieces at Communion, but that doesn't prevent me from having Marian / Sacred Heart / etc., during Communion as well.

Our Easter III / Mother's Day schedule this year:
PRE
** Ave Virgo Sanctissima (Guerrero)
** Daily, Daily Sing to Mary as processional
** Vidi Aquam

MASS
** Mass I with Medium Propers (PT the Alleluia verses)
** Ave Maris (Victoria) for Offertory
** Ego Sum (Esquivel) Comm 1
** Surrexit Dominus (Handl) Comm 2
** Regina Coeli (Cottone) Comm 3
** Regina Coeli Iubila (Anon) Comm 4
** O Salutaris (Duguet) Comm 5

POST
** May Crowning program
** Who is She Ascends So High as recessional
** Organ postlude

No apologies for the Assumption hymn in May! Any more than I would apologize for using Ave Maris, the Regina Coeli, or the Ave Virgo which each celebrate different aspects of Marian devotion.

This past weekend, I directed a choir at an EF Easter Saturday liturgy, followed by singing with a friend for Orthodox Midnight Divine Liturgy for Easter, followed after about four hours of sleep by singing at my regular "parish" for Hunchback Sunday. My Orthodox friend noted that this means three liturgies in the space of 24 hours. I told him in some circles that qualifies as "clinically insane".

But - am I the only person who loves this sort of thing? Back-to-back liturgies? In my earlier years, one of my guilty pleasures (before French Romanticism) was old monster B-movies; the cheesier the better. I would watch them, read reviews on them, everything. Unfortunately, most of these reviewers tend towards the liberal humanist side* and looked down on the more religious aspects of these types of movies. I remember reading one review of Boris Karloff's early thriller The Ghoul, where it mentions how all of Boris's conventionally Christian relatives are aghast that he tried to prolong his life through using an ancient Egyptian crystal. The reviewer quipped that Karloff probably didn't look forward to an eternity of being in church. --- and this is where I realized I'm weird, because I thought to myself, "that really wouldn't be that bad at all. Singing beautiful music, hearing the Gospel, reflecting on God's glory, being with all my friends - why would anyone think that would suck?"

So yeah - please tell me I'm not the only one who isn't frightened by a 'relentless march' of the liturgy. Dr. Denis McNamara said at the 2014 Colloquium that the church is designed to represent the Apocalypse - the "Living End" of the World. Isn't that the sort of End we should all be living for?

*although there were a few good ones, like Kenneth Begg at Jabootu.

We have both vernacular and the Latin printed side by side in the booklet. From time to time we have used both languages. I know of no requirements specifying one over the other.

I like those old movies as well. One of my favorites is "Comedy of Terrors" with Price, Karloff and Peter Lorre. Hilarious. I think the entire movie is available on YouTube.

And Price was never able to get his father in law to take his "medicine."

Um... just to get back to the OP....................

Am wondering, are there people on this forum who received a similar mandate?
And if so, how did you go about organizing your task?
Any experiences you'd like to share will be helpful to other readers, now and in future. Thanks!