If you think about the difference between before and after the Council regarding the role of the priest at Mass, there is a difference that seems to catch the eye. Before the Council the priest sang the Mass and limited himself to performing the ceremonies as foreseen by the rubrics, after the Council many priests pepper the Mass with speeches of all types and almost no longer sing.
Yet the post-conciliar instruction Musicam sacram of 1967 had given clear instructions in this regard:
"However, for pastoral reasons, degrees of participation are proposed for the sung Mass, so that it is easier, according to the possibilities of each liturgical assembly, to make the celebration of the Mass more solemn with singing. The use of these degrees will be regulated as follows: the first can also be used alone; the second and third, in whole or in part, only together with the first. Therefore, take care to always lead the faithful to full participation in the singing."
So the first level is more important, and what does it include? The priest's singing parts.
Yet, at least in Italy, hearing priests sing their part is now a real rarity, and yet from all the chatter they have at various moments of the Mass, they don't seem to be out of breath. As the scholar and priest Roberto Tagliaferri says, today we are prey to an epidemic of "verbalism", it is thought that the Mass is not effective if it is not continually explained and re-explained. Of course, it would be delicate to point out that sometimes it is difficult to understand the boundary between what is necessary and the priests' delusions of protagonism, but who am I to judge? I can at least say that I am a believer who is completely bored by all this useless talk.
Many will say: why are you complaining? Go to the vetus ordo Mass. But if this would solve the problem for me, it does not solve it for the other brothers in the faith who are subjected to the liturgical abuse of some priests on a weekly basis. So I can also choose to go to the traditional Mass, but without forgetting that going to this Mass does not mean living on an island and that we have a duty towards our brothers and sisters in the faith.
Minding your own business is the broad way, but we have been told to aim for the narrow way, and not just when it suits us.