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Malkin71
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I was in my early years in school in the mid 70’s. I was the ones where they did away with the Baltimore catacism and replaced it with Religion. I did not get to experience learning latin even in High School. Now I feIt I was deprived of something. wish they taught it. Now I am trying to teach myself latin. I have tapes. I think it should be required through out all Catholic schools all around the world and a requirment in College. Also all churches should teach it as well. You will have more knowledgeable people and there will not be the excuse of “people have no clue what is being said .”It does sound cool! I love the old Latin hymns and every now and again I’ll throw in a blessing or prayer in Latin too. The problem with the use of Latin now-a-days is that the vast majority of people have no idea what is being said, thus it has no real effect in their worship and ulimatley in their lives, other than an entertainment or nostagia factor.
I really like the traditional Latin Mass as well. It trully expresses the mysterious and divine nature of the sacred liturgy, especially the sacrifical nature of the Mass. But again, if people have no clue what is being said and are only there for the experience of it, it tends to diminish participation. One still recieves the graces, but the motivation to actualize those graces and build up the body of Christ, as a united community, tends to at times suffer.
Personally, I love the Mass the way it is now, when celebrated properly. However, as we all know there are a lot of priests and lay people who take liberites with the liturgy, ignore the rubrics, and turn it into a horse and pony show. Not good!
Anyhow, that’s my thoughts for the day.
Have a great weekend!
