A great homily on the use of Latin

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callmeChris said:
I just came by this video on youtube. I gotta tell you, it is very nice and makes sense when you think about it.
What do you think?
LINK–>> youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-nyfCoAmY&playnext_from=TL&videos=yeLqKA-9zQc
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The homily goes beyond the use of Latin. It really is part of a homily on the EF rite. The title should specify that.

All the comments he made regarding Latin also apply to the OF rite, for which Latin has never been forbidden and remains the official language of the Mass in that rite.

It’s a pet peeve of mind when people says “let’s bring back the Latin Mass”. The “Latin” Mass has never left. It changed forms though.
 
callmeChris said:
I just came by this video on youtube. I gotta tell you, it is very nice and makes sense when you think about it.
What do you think?
LINK–>> youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-nyfCoAmY&playnext_from=TL&videos=yeLqKA-9zQc
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vey nice thank you.

no wonder why we are in such mess today. he is right when he mentions that Catholics dont go to Mass of other languages. he is speaking the truth. the changes in the Mass, i believe was a trick of the devil to destroy the CC.
protestants are growing everywhere because many who moved from their countries to another country and dont speak the language end up in some protestant church that provides services in their own language.
 
wisdomseeker said:
vey nice thank you.

no wonder why we are in such mess today. he is right when he mentions that Catholics dont go to Mass of other languages. he is speaking the truth. the changes in the Mass, i believe was a trick of the devil to destroy the CC.
protestants are growing everywhere because many who moved from their countries to another country and dont speak the language end up in some protestant church that provides services in their own language.
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No, I think the real trick of the devil was to get us to stop teaching Latin in school.
 
OraLabora said:
No, I think the real trick of the devil was to get us to stop teaching Latin in school.
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agreed. and one thing lead to another and here we are almost no Catholic culture at all. the CC almost forgotten.

the liberals just believe if they can hang on for just awhile longer they will succeed in destroying the Catholic beliefs altogether to the point where no one even remember what was like to be a Catholic. It would be just another religion just like others wiht no authority whatsoever to stand againts their agenda. the devil is very clever and like to use the word charity in the wrong way.
 
I understand the part about, if you aren’t familiar with it or not proffient enough to hold a more casual type conversation, it’s not worth it.

I do feel like the iew can’t be applied to everyone. I, personally come from a family full of 2 Romace languages as is (Spanish and Italian, common in Argentina) and I liked the language enough to take it as a child, though my mother’s Classical Language background helped. I’m still helpless with any Greek, Hellenic, Homeric, niente! But Latin comes to me as easily as Spanish and Italian do =\ I still reserve that for when I can focus more since here at home I speak English with my sister and with my parents it’s mixed.

Only issue I had was that Ikept switching between classic pronunciation and Ecclesiastic (though it may sound bad for all the Latin scholars out ther, Iam at ease more with Ecclesiastic singe it’ uses Italian phonemes.)

And as for not going in other lagnguages? I have gone. I would rather be able to attend th Sacrament even in KOREAN (at the more modern Parish my parents go to, they have one sorry, no offense meant) but I believe almost all here are familiar with the structure of Mass and in the end if you can follow and pray inside in your mother tongue, it’s better than not going at all, that’l. Just my opinion.
 
It’s true that the Mass was more universal when it was in Latin. However, I don’t think we have to go back to it. Since they didn’t understand Latin, many people would be praying a rosary during Mass in the old days. Yes, some people would read the English side of the Missal, but others were simply bored. I don’t agree with the video that people don’t go to Mass in other languages. I do and I know others who do. I grew up with the Latin Mass and studied two years of Latin in high school, but I wouldn’t go back to it. The only thing I really miss about the Latin Mass is the quiet.
 
OraLabora said:
No, I think the real trick of the devil was to get us to stop teaching Latin in school.
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I don’t think the inability to read Caesar’s “Gallic Wars” or Cicero’s “Orations” in the original has a lot to do with where the Church finds herself today. I think the loss of people to the evangelical sects has a lot more to do with poor catechesis and an inability to speak the “language” of love, support, community, and acceptance. One could attend the typical Catholic parish for 20 years and not have another soul speak to you. Such would not be the case with the evangelicals.
 
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