One More question on the ban on Latin

[Fuerza]

Does that Diocese have Eastern Catholic Parishes which celebrate Liturgy on Greek, Russian, etc. ?

Except for Russian Byzantine Catholics, all have their own bishops in the USA. There is, to my knowledge, only one Russian Catholic parish in the USA, and that’s in San Francisco, which is under the Roman bishop.

BTW–I’m not saying that nobody uses Russian liturgicallly, but it would be very rare, as Russian Orthodox use Slavonic liturgically.

There’s actually a pretty active Russian Byzantine Catholic church in NYC, but I’m not sure if it’s under Cardinal Egan or a Russian bishop.

 

[obadiah]

Actually, I don’t know if you were being facetious or not, but there is in fact an official list of words not of original Anglo-Saxon/Germanic derivation. However, while English is structurally a Germanic language, roughly 60% of its vocabulary is of Latin origin (either directly or via Norman French) and a significant percentage comes from Greek and a host of other languages. Therefore, this bishop would have to ban the majority of the words of the Mass if he really wanted to be thorough. So if he is really serious, the priests in his diocese will only be allowed to walk up to the altar, maybe cough, and then walk back down. If nothing else, that’s guaranteed to get everyone out in time to watch football.

Hmmm…let’s hope that the NFL doesn’t catch wind of this…

Maybe we could all learn middle English and start over. Fr. Ambrose could teach us Gaelic and we could really get back to our roots. ( at least those who are Irish).

 

[Ad_Deum]

Gaylord is too Englishish!!!

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