Posted on 11/13/2016 2:12:14 PM PST by Morgana
O Lord, how much longer with this person?
I loved Latin! In my tiny high school, it was offered for only 2 years. I would have taken 4 years if I could.
You have forgotten my favorite: the passive periphrastic!
When I attended Catholic grade school they explained that the Latin Mass was the same all over the world
So no matter where you were you could easily follow along with the celebration of the mass
That is what I was taught, as well. And it saddens me that such unity no longer exists.
Which is what Pope Francis wants Latin Mass lovers to be.
The Latin Mass is beautiful.
The Sistine ceiling is also "rigid." Would the pope prefer that it was more flexible?
With respect to the Novus Ordo service? I beg to differ.
A universal,non political language.
Oh man, I feel so much inclusion, I feel so accompanied; I can tell he’s looking deeply, tenderly in my eyes and respecting my unique and precious contribution to Everybody’s Church as his little Latin lamb because my humble, humble humility is something he really treasures in his heart as he kicks me off the cliff...
Since he is rigid in his liberalism, I suppose he is telling us something about himself. So what is the 'something else' he is hiding?
What ever happened to “Who am I to judge”? Can’t we get a little of that non-judgmental affirmation?
Francis seems pretty rigid in his Marxism and Liberation Theology.
Pope. Respectfully, your rigid complaints about the rigidity of others is rigid. What should matter is if set beliefs are based on the truth handed onto you in the Church.
Don’t be a moral hypocrite.
As a 78 year old “Cradle Catholic” I have this to say:
Growing up, we often visited my mother’s family in Canada. We attended the French Catholic Church where the Mass was in Latin. I understood and followed the liturgy. Although the sermon was gibberish to me, I knew what was taking place.
Years later, in Vietnam, Hong Kong and Japan, I experienced the same thing. However, post Vatican II permission to celebrate the liturgy in the vernacular languages led to something entirely different!
I was stationed in Japan at the time. We usually attended Mass at the base chapel but there were times when we attended Mass at a Japanese parish church. Talk about being totally lost!! I often wondered if I had attended at all!
The Latin Mass was the universal liturgical language of the Roman Rite, followed and understood by all, throughout the Catholic Church, world-wide. Too bad it has gone away and is not supported by the Vatican.
What’s a sober Catholic to do? If I leave the RCC, where do I go?
this.....
I am thinking of going Greek Orthodox. Was the same church as Rome until 1000 years ago.
Judica me, Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta: ab homine iniquo et doloso erue me.
Is converting long and difficult?
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