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any particular reason for Greek?

Why settle for a translation when you can have the original?

8 posted on 10/15/2006 9:41:51 AM PDT by Hieronymus

What's up with that mitre? It looks like something from a sci-fi movie. Couldn't they find a nice green and gold mitre in the sacristy?

9 posted on 10/15/2006 1:59:03 PM PDT by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)

To: Hieronymus; Mercat; Kolokotronis

Why settle for a translation when you can have the original?

Great response!!! And, yes K, it sounds beautiful chanted in Greek, as well as in Latin :-) I still have happy memories from 2 years ago when a Maronite monk was canonized and the Gospel was chanted by a RC deacon in Latin, then by a Maronite priest, in Arabic.

I believe the Pope uses these events to remind Catholics that the Church is both Western and Eastern. This is the first time, however, that the Vatican choir chanted the responses in Greek. That speaks volumes about the Pope's seriousness in conveying this message.

13 posted on 10/15/2006 6:42:15 PM PDT by NYer ("It is easier for the earth to exist without sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.” PPio)

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