What Happens Where More Than One Vernacular?

[Orogeny]

That would be fine if the only reason I was attending Mass was to meet my fellow congregants. But I attend Mass to worship Our Lord and if a universal language was used, I could attend Mass anywhere in the world and worship right along with everyone else attending.

I attend a TLM now. I recently found some TLM videos on youtube.com. One was in Paris and the other was in Poland. I knew exactly what was going on and could follow everything in both Masses because of the universality of the TLM.

I’ve been to Masses in spanish, chinese and vietnamese and, while I don’t understand the exact words, I do understand what is going on. I would be in exactly the same boat regarding latin.

Besides, I was only addressing the OPs comment about not meeting his/her fellow parishoners because of language differences.

Peace

Tim

 

[JKirkLVNV]

In such a setting, you’re still going to have the problem of the sermons, the readings, etc. People still need the proclamation of the Word and instruction in it in their own tongues.

 

[RobedWithLight]

Benedict XVI himself likewise said that even Trent saw the possibility of opening up the liturgy in the vernacular.

“It was right and proper to open up the liturgy to the venacular; even the Council of Trent saw it as a possibility. Furthermore, it is simply untrue to say, as the integralists do, that drawing up new forms of the Canon of the Mass is a contradiction of Trent” (Thesen zum Thema ‘Zehn Jahre Vaticanum II’, trans. Salvator Attanasio and Graham Harrison).