English-only FReeps want return to Latin mass - Go figure

Whatever happened to the idea of English as a national language?

Someone posted a months-old article on how the Pope wants to return to the Latin mass.

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Sounds good. Latin is a beautiful language.

1 posted on 12/25/2006 5:14:35 PM PST by Hacksaw

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To: Hacksaw

As a former Catholic, I think this is a wonderful idea.

5 posted on 12/25/2006 5:20:40 PM PST by Chickensoup (If you don't go to the holy war, the holy war will come to you.)

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To: Hacksaw

I am not Catholic but I am all about traditions and I think this is a wonderful idea.....

18 posted on 12/25/2006 6:29:51 PM PST by Kimmers (It's not what you take when you leave this world behind, it's what you leave behind when you go)

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I am not Catholic, however I do think Latin is a kickin' rad language. I'd like to see it make a comeback.

what the priest was saying during mass it added an air of mystery and power, I remember my mother who was raised Catholic saying how disappointed she was when she heard mass in English and realized they weren't really saying anything different then Protestants!

She never would have done it if Mass had still been in Latin. When I was little, she told me she didn't want to go to a church where the preacher turned his back to her, then bent over and mumbled to himself!

That's how it was when I went to church. There was a certain mystery about them.

maybe "God hates fags" sounds better in Latin? Freeper logic always eludes me. :crazy:

and was refused because of being on DU. I guess we are the 'evil ones'. hahaha

NT

Do they, like Gibson, reject Vatican II? :evilgrin:

I like the mass in Latin too. it has a lot of spiritual heft to it, at least to my ears. It puts me into a different state of mind.

I'm not explaining it very well, and it simply may be that I grew up with the Latin mass. When I was an altar boy, I learned the service in Latin, and just as I had it memorized, and before I served my first mass, we went to English.

There was something more dramatic about the sounds in Latin. It helped to lift me out of the realm of the everyday. The sound is far more beautiful.

I used to live in Hammond, IN and went to mass at St Michael's in Chicago. There is a very large Polish population that attends St Michaels and they had a priest on staff who spoke Polish and did a mass in Polish.
He was rather old, and it has been 10 years, so I'm assuming at the very least he's retired. Finding another Polish speaking priest has got to be a little difficult (unless you bring one in from Poland).
The Church has places that do masses in Spanish, some in Vietnamese, etc.
I would guess it is probably difficult to find American born Priests that run the gammut of languages the Church is serving throughout the US.
If they did the mass in Latin it would be easier on the Church.

I wouldn't be happy. I kind of like hearing mass in Korean.

on note: I live in Bucheon, Korea.

so he could minister to the Polish-only-speaking population.

When I grew up in South Chicago, the population was mostly Polish and Mexican.

I'd attended a couple of funerals at the church, one for my grandmother (who lived on Baltimore ave,) and a great Uncle, within the past decade. It's near Russel Square Park, isn't it?

It's a beautiful building.

I went by there about three years ago...They were renovating the bell tower -- lightning damage I think.

It's a gorgeous building.

Lots of people in Chicago speak Polish, at the very least they could find a priest who can read it off of the cards they keep up front

Admittedly, I have been to only two in my lifetime, having been born post-V-II, but I felt like I was intruding on the priest's personal prayer time when I sat through the Tridentine mass. I had had several semesters of Latin by then, so it wasn't that I felt distanced by the language; but c'mon, face me! What, I have cooties because I'm the laity?

on edit: removed meaningless phrase.

"This is my body" where "hocuspocus" comes from. Hoc est...

only in Latin was to keep the common people from knowing what was REALLY said.

A Straussian technique, if ever I heard one. Of course the Straussian Neo-Cons would support it.

:D

:D

Hey Kimmers, all you're leaving behind when you go is crap.