Latin was not a spoken language???????

I thought all the nitty-gritty church rituals were in Latin. When I was quite young anyway. Am I remembering incorrectly.

If the truth be told I could be wrong. I was rather afraid of our priest as he yelled a lot, pointed at us young sinners and generally scared the beejeebies out of me with the inevitability of us going to hell real soon. I think he thought that if he scared us enough when we were in our pre-teens we would walk the rightious path as teens. Most of us just didn't go back when we hit our teens.