To: sinkspur
Misa normativa is the Mass of the Latin rite--but with no Latin in it!!! How quaint...
35 posted on
08/18/2004 10:46:24 AM PDT by
Mershon
To: Mershon
At St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington DC, the N.O. is offered in Latin every Sunday. Schola Cantorum and the whole nine yards.
I've never been to an 'important' Mass that didn't have some Latin in it. If there's a bishop present, you can bet they will sing Agnus Dei, and the Pater Noster. I hear the Kyrie, the Greek, a lot too. Stick around during Easter, and you may even hear 'Stabat Mater'. The architects of Vatican 2 never meant to expunge Latin from the Mass. Thats whats happened at the parish level, and thats a dirty shame. Originally, the point of the vernacular was to let the words of consecration be understood by the most ignorant of the laity.
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