Their new lease on life came from new meanings given to them, meanings which the old Latin Rite vesting prayers (and current vesting prayers in the Eastern Churches, both in and out of communion with Rome) express. Consider that current Eastern vesting prayers begin with washing one’s hands and prayer, not unlike the washing of hands during the offertory. No doubt, for some priests, the old vesting prayers might have become rote ritual. One also suspects the vesting prayers would help shape overall preparation for Mass in a more spiritual direction. That a new generation of priests rediscovered the old vesting prayers does not necessarily mean there is some traditionalist fifth column waiting for the moment to celebrate like it is 1959 again.