Does Mary speak English, French, German?

[Big_Dummy]

How do you think the differences of language between Mary, Saints and those on earth work out? What scriptures, traditions, etc., would you bring to bear on this?

 

[Frozenvirtue]

I’m sure that in heaven, there’s plenty of time to learn new languages . But to give a serious answer, when Our Lady appeared to St. Bernadette, she spoke not just French, but the patois or dialect spoken by the people of Lourdes, and I like to think St. Bernadette was touched by that.

Where Scriptures are concerned, the only thing I can think of is in Acts after Pentecost, when the crowds are astonished to hear a group of Galileans speak in their own respective languages. Hope that helps

 

[tonyrey]

Human languages are sets of symbols to express thoughts and ideas. They become unnecessary when you understand what a person wishes to communicate. The truth is independent of words.

 

[Carlan]

Human languages are sets of symbols to express thoughts and ideas. They become unnecessary when you understand what a person wishes to communicate. The truth is independent of words.

Yes , so the Saints and the Trinity do not have to be able to speak the multiple languages to understand the communication of prayer by the Church Militant. Right?
Peace, carlan

 

[tonyrey]

Yes , so the Saints and the Trinity do not have to be able to speak the multiple languages to understand the communication of prayer by the Church Militant. Right?
Peace, carlan

Carlan, William Wordsworth wrote:

" And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves,
Forebode not any severing of our loves!
Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might;
I only have relinquished one delight
To live beneath your more habitual sway.
I love the Brooks which down their channels fret,
Even more than when I tripped lightly as they;
The innocent brightness of a new-born Day
Is lovely yet;
The Clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o’er man’s mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

The whole poem is worth reading:

bartleby.com/145/ww331.html

I love the following lines:

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
** But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home**:”

 

[Carlan]

Carlan, William Wordsworth wrote:

" And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves,
Forebode not any severing of our loves!
Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might;
I only have relinquished one delight
To live beneath your more habitual sway.
I love the Brooks which down their channels fret,
Even more than when I tripped lightly as they;
The innocent brightness of a new-born Day
Is lovely yet;
The Clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o’er man’s mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

The whole poem is worth reading:

bartleby.com/145/ww331.html

I love the following lines:

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
** But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home**:”

Thank you so much Tonyrey, I love it, I have saved it!
Peace, Carlan

 

[smichhertz]

In Heaven everybody speaks Latin, the language of God. =)

More seriously, I think Heaven we will communicate not with our words but with our hearts. Just like we don’t have to be necessarily speaking out loud in order to pray to God.

Just my humble opinion.

 

[tonyrey]

Thank you so much Tonyrey, I love it, I have saved it!
Peace, Carlan

I remember it because as a boy at school we had to learn and recite a poem in front of the class. I was so nervous I couldn’t get further than the title! Even so the teacher gave me a good mark because he said it was a feat to remember “ODE ON THE INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD”. I’m sure he felt sorry for me…

 

[followingtheway]

I’m sure that in heaven, there’s plenty of time to learn new languages . But to give a serious answer, when Our Lady appeared to St. Bernadette, she spoke not just French, but the patois or dialect spoken by the people of Lourdes, and I like to think St. Bernadette was touched by that.

Where Scriptures are concerned, the only thing I can think of is in Acts after Pentecost, when the crowds are astonished to hear a group of Galileans speak in their own respective languages. Hope that helps

I agree. And besides the devil’s not God, but he can tempt people of different languages can he?

 

[Big_Dummy]

wait, I always thought Hebrew was the heavnly language.

We don’t know that the devil himself tempts everyone in their own language. It could be some demons leaned different language like at the UN.