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To: Javelina

"What's the problem if a Christian Mass is performed in Arabic? "

If I went to a Catholic church on Easter expecting to hear a mass on the most important day of the calendar year without a for warning that this Easter the mass would be said in Arabic. I would be extremely upset.


41 posted on 04/16/2006 8:52:45 PM PDT by Sweetjustusnow (Mr. President and Representatives, do your duty to uphold our laws or you are all gone.)
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To: Sweetjustusnow

Note: This is a parish that does masses in more than one language on a regular basis:

Sunday
Saturday, 5:00 p.m. (Sunday Vigil)
Sunday, 8:00 a.m. Portuguese/Brazilian
Sunday, 10:00 a.m. English
Sunday, 11:45 a.m. Arabic & English
Sunday, 8:00 p.m. English

Nowadays, it's not uncommom for urban parishes to offer masses in more than one language. It is important to check the mass schedule first. Nothing unusual.


43 posted on 04/16/2006 9:01:31 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Sweetjustusnow

Would you have been equally upset to find the service being conducted in Chinese? German? Russian? Polish? Vietnamese? Swahili? Because I can assure you, somewhere in the United States, there was a Catholic Easter Mass celebrated in every single one of those languages.

The language doesn't matter. It never has (except for Latin - and even then...). It's the form, the ceremony or ritual, and the *reasons* behind it that matter.

Christianity needs all the converts and believers it can get at this point in history. You want to turn people away from the Church because they might not understand English?

In addition, I suspect that, if it follows the model of most churches in the US, the times and languages of the services are not only posted in the bulletin, but on the signboard out front.


44 posted on 04/16/2006 9:04:26 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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