No need for consecrated wine?

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1. Latin is not the mother tongue for most of the languages of Europe.

Immaterial. Latin and Roman law are the basis of Western civilization. You fail to realize at least 2000 years of Roman influence.

1. English is not a vulgarized language.

Whatever you call it, it has been subjected to heavy morphisms just like other mutable languages. And will continue to be so, especially with fewer native-speaking Anglophones, fewer grammarians and more texters.

1. Latin was not an unchanging language either. We tend to think that it is because it is a “dead language”, that is, no one speaks it anymore.

The fact that only scholars, rigid grammarians, and lawyers use it makes it unchanging enough. Good thing, in my opinion.

God made all languages equal and are equally capacity of speaking the sacred words of the divine liturgy.

You forget the Tower of Babel where God used many languages to punish. The fact is that only Greek, Latin, and Hebrew were the languages used as inscriptions on the cross. Anything else is a translation, subject to errors inherent in the translation processes.

When there was such a great and legitimate clamour for returning the mass to the language of the people in the 16th century.

There had been attempts to make this so since the early centuries. The Reformers, mostly of Germanic and other barbarian languages, were obviously very influential in fulfilling this mission, and thus caused enormous divisions within the Christian world. Why do you think the Gospel in the EF is said facing north, where the barbarians thrived?

Jesus says you will know something by its fruits. I see the fruits of an insistence on Latin as very bitter.

No more bitter than divisions of culture caused by the vernacular-only. Unless you think that over 20,000 Protestant denominations and interpretations of the truth have produced good fruit. I was taught by Polophone priests and Anglophone priests and I can tell you that it seemed I was taught two different religions. It shouldn’t be so.

That said, it’s been a good discussion but this is all I’m going to say on this thread. We’ve gone off-topic too much.