Will Learning Latin Make Me More Catholic?

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I get kind of sick of hearing stuff like this. It’s like people have magical thinking about Latin. Do I think it’s important to learn Latin? Yes, this is why I can tell you where Purgatory is in the Bible. But, keep in mind, that there are a few million Catholics, where Latin is not part of their Heritage and never has been. The last supper was in Aramaic, not Latin, and the Church, even in Rome, used Greek until about the 3rd century. I think you can be a perfectly acceptable Catholic, and barely know Latin, like most Eastern Catholics, would probably rather know Greek or old church Slavonic, or Syriac, or in some cases, Arabic. I certainly hope no one misunderstands me, I am not anti Latin at all , but when I see articles, saying that the devil hates Latin, that just drives me crazy. The devil hates holiness, Doesn’t matter what language you’re holy in. I think you should learn Latin, but I think learning Greek would be more useful , this is just my opinion, and if possible learn both.
 
adamhovey1988 said:
when I see articles, saying that the devil hates Latin, that just drives me crazy. The devil hates holiness, Doesn’t matter what language you’re holy in
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Not true, read Jesse Romero book “Devil in the City of Angels” and he explains how when accompanying Exorcists performing countless exorcisms, they freed people from demons in a fraction of time praying in Latin as compared to English.
 
That’s only because the rite of exorcisms hasn’t been translated into the vernacular and it’s what exorcists priests are left with.

However, the devil hates the place the heart is in, not the language
 
JimR-OCDS said:
That’s only because the rite of exorcisms hasn’t been translated into the vernacular and it’s what exorcists priests are left with.
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No, they prayed in both Latin and Vernacular. Suggest reading the book.
However, the devil hates the place the heart is in, not the language
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Maybe in some utopian world, sure. But this is the real world.
 
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It wasn’t the official rite of exorcism which is only in Latin

The devil would hate that the priest put the effort into learning Latin in order to work in his ministry more than the use of the language itself.
 
adamhovey1988 said:
when I see articles, saying that the devil hates Latin, that just drives me crazy. The devil hates holiness
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Amen - to this and everything else you said.

There seems to be a lot of superstition among self-described “traditional” Catholics. The obsession with Latin and belief that it has some sort of supernatural power is a prime example. Latin is a human language; it’s no more divine or supernatural than any other human language. And, as others have pointed out, Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic predate Latin as the “traditional” languages.

I’m all for embracing tradition, but we need to differentiate between religious traditions and cultural traditions. From what I’ve seen, the “traditionalists” are obsessed with cultural traditions, and it often has a negative affect on them and those around them because they treat these cultural traditions with religious significance, and end up missing the mark on what Catholicism is actually about.
 
I’m going by the facts from exorcists who explain why only latin is used in exorcisms.

Also, the exorcist will always use the possessed person to be freed from the demon and to do this the exorcists will speak to the person in their own language.

BTW, the book, “Hostage to The Devil,” by Malachi Martin provides the process of demonic possession and exorcism, along with five documented cases of demonic possession.
 
Because that’s the language that Jesus spoke!

It was supposed to be a joke 🙃
 
JimR-OCDS said:
I’m going by the facts from exorcists who explain why only latin is used in exorcisms.
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Ok so you haven’t read the book and no that’s false they did use English and Latin in the exorcisms. And praying in Latin freed the person in about 1/2 the time that they were praying in English with no success.
 
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