To: Victoria Delsoul; All
I studied Latin all through High School and only ever merited a C. My teacher told me my test scores rated a D but she appreciated my effort. I was even in the Latin Club ( whata dork!~ )
I really loved that class. A few years ago I found a massive Latin / English dictionary in an estate I had bought the contents of. The dictionary was about the only thing I kept from the estate.
Latin Masses have all but faded from Boston, even in the old Irish Catholic neighborhoods where my family was from. Sadly, I've never experienced one.
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04/28/2005 6:15:53 PM PDT by
warsaw44
To: warsaw44
To: warsaw44
Latin Masses have all but faded from Boston, even in the old Irish Catholic neighborhoods where my family was from. Sadly, I've never experienced one. Well, hopefully with this Pope we'll enjoy a Latin Mass in the near future.
Fiat lux!
To: warsaw44
I took Latin in high school to help me with my other languages, and I got an award for it too -- the Linguam Latinam award, I think. When I went to music camp in 1993, specifically to sing the Durufle Requiem and the Haydn Harmoniemasse, a large number of those in the group had to be taught Latin before they could learn the music, never having heard a Latin Mass and having no idea what it meant. That was when I realized that I was getting old!
The one thing I miss most about the Latin Mass is the ability to walk into any Catholic church in the world and know what's going on.
And I love chant, singing it and hearing it both.
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