Will Learning Latin Make Me More Catholic?

[ProVobis]

Probably not but English descended from the Germanic languages and French, of course, is Latin-based.

 

[ProVobis]

lot of literature to read in Latin.

That’s an understatement as Latin spans over 2500 years, mostly unchanged in vocabulary and grammar, and much of it untranslated.

 

[MagdalenaRita]

TLM Catholics today will travel over an hour in order to attend a TLM. It doesn’t make sense to me, but it’s what they do.

In the 50’s, Catholics were often seen praying the Rosary or just daydreaming during Mass

Nobody day dreams today.

The TLM predates the 1950’s. People do not want the TLM just because that is what the Mass was in the 1950’s. I always wonder, why bring up the 1950’s. I have never heard anyone say they like the TLM because that was what the Mass was in the 1950’s.

Today’s TLM Catholics are more serious about their faith than Catholics in the 50’s were.

TLM Catholics today will travel over an hour in order to attend a TLM. It doesn’t make sense to me, but it’s what they do.

I am pretty sure it is not a fair statement to say Catholics before Vatican II were not serious about their faith, though I am glad to know that TLM Catholics today are serious about their faith.

There were people, though, who long before the 1950’s packed their family up in horse and buggies and traveled long distances just to get to a Mass. The Mass that many saints called the most beautiful thing they ever saw. There used to be Catholics building parishes and Catholic communities. Now parishes are shrinking and being torn down or sold.

 

[ProVobis]

Altar boys merely mimicked the Latin words they learned through rote

Yes but it was so cool to dialogue with the priest in Latin during the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar. It wasn’t easy as the choir was chanting the Introit.