Although there is much about these two gifts that Christians disagree about, at least two things are made very clear in Paul's discussion. First, these gifts are to be expressed in the church in an orderly manner. The goal is the edification , the building up, of the church. This edification comes by understanding what God has to say to those gathered for worship. This is not unlike the manner in which Paul teaches that men come to God through the Gospel.
Response follows hearing and understanding.
The Latin spoken in the celebration of the Mass and the ability of the priests to read the Latin translation of the Scriptures may have impressed some Catholic worshippers, but it did nothing to promote the understanding of spiritual truths. The difference here is that in the early church and in the Protestant Reformation, the goal of scholars and teachers is to help others achieve a correct understanding of God's Word. In Catholicism at the time of the Reformation, the goal of much of the clergy was to make the lay people totally dependent upon them personally, so that rather than understand how to think Scripturally, the people knew only to do or not do what the priest told them - with a large measure of fear thrown in by the inability of the people to understand either God's Word or the ceremonies of worship. Latin was the language clergymen and church scholars used to communicate about matters of faith. The celebration of the Mass in Latin, which had become the custom, made sense to the priests, but made this ceremony meaningless to the people of the congregation.