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Little by little we are reemphasizing the importance of Latin in the catholic liturgy an outside the walls of the church-we have Bl. Pope John Paul II and our current “De gloriae olivae” Pope Benedict XVI, to thank for these efforts. Long life and health to our beloved pope:
"[Thank God for the Catholic church – and I speak as an agnostic Anglican. Once again, they are helping to preserve the study of Latin in Western Europe, as they have for more than a millennium.
Pope Benedict is about to set up a new body, the Pontificia Academia Latinitatis, which will study and promote the language in schools and churches.
The role of Latin has declined in the Catholic church since Vatican II but it still remains the official language of the Vatican – and the role of the church in the survival of Latin is incalculable.
The Old Testament may have been written in Hebrew, the New in Greek, but it was in Latin that medieval priests principally read and spoke in church. It is in the translation from the Latin, too, that worshippers were used to hearing the liturgy.
Confusingly, the Latin Church used a Greek liturgy for several hundred years before adopting Latin, but it was the Latin version that stuck until Vatican II in 1962-5. Vatican II pushed the Catholic liturgy away from direct use of Latin and from translations that remained faithful to the original Latin. John Paul II reversed the trend when he signed off the 2001 directive, known as Liturgiam Authenticam, demanding translations that were closer to Latin.
In America, Australia, Scotland, England and Wales, bishops have now accepted the Vatican-backed translations. So, in America for example, the prayer before communion, which had gone "Lord, I am not worthy to receive you,” now goes “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof.”
That’s much closer to the original Latin – “Domine, non sum dignus, ut intres sub tectum meum.” Likewise, in the Nicene Creed, “born of the Virgin Mary” reverted to “incarnate of the Virgin Mary” (“incarnatus…ex Maria Virgine”).
And now it emerges that, as well as retaining a Latin favour in translations, and encouraging the Tridentine Mass, the Catholic Church will also be pushing Latin outside the church door. Mirabile dictu!]"
In hoc signo vinces!!
"[Thank God for the Catholic church – and I speak as an agnostic Anglican. Once again, they are helping to preserve the study of Latin in Western Europe, as they have for more than a millennium.
Pope Benedict is about to set up a new body, the Pontificia Academia Latinitatis, which will study and promote the language in schools and churches.
The role of Latin has declined in the Catholic church since Vatican II but it still remains the official language of the Vatican – and the role of the church in the survival of Latin is incalculable.
The Old Testament may have been written in Hebrew, the New in Greek, but it was in Latin that medieval priests principally read and spoke in church. It is in the translation from the Latin, too, that worshippers were used to hearing the liturgy.
Confusingly, the Latin Church used a Greek liturgy for several hundred years before adopting Latin, but it was the Latin version that stuck until Vatican II in 1962-5. Vatican II pushed the Catholic liturgy away from direct use of Latin and from translations that remained faithful to the original Latin. John Paul II reversed the trend when he signed off the 2001 directive, known as Liturgiam Authenticam, demanding translations that were closer to Latin.
In America, Australia, Scotland, England and Wales, bishops have now accepted the Vatican-backed translations. So, in America for example, the prayer before communion, which had gone "Lord, I am not worthy to receive you,” now goes “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof.”
That’s much closer to the original Latin – “Domine, non sum dignus, ut intres sub tectum meum.” Likewise, in the Nicene Creed, “born of the Virgin Mary” reverted to “incarnate of the Virgin Mary” (“incarnatus…ex Maria Virgine”).
And now it emerges that, as well as retaining a Latin favour in translations, and encouraging the Tridentine Mass, the Catholic Church will also be pushing Latin outside the church door. Mirabile dictu!]"
In hoc signo vinces!!
