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To: Petronski
Sounds like you know very little about Catholic liturgy.

Sounds like you read little of what I have said...

I made reference to Vat2, or I guess to explain it more slowly, v a t i c a n II... in which the Pope and his council made significant changes, including the right for use of the local languages in worship. But that may change...

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...Is Pope Benedict XVI determined to restore the Latin mass that many Roman Catholics thought had been consigned to the dustbin of history? The answer, in short, is both yes and no. But neither the "yes" nor the "no" quite fits the conventional speculations in several recent media reports following off-the-cuff remarks to a small Catholic association in Great Britain by a Vatican official. In unraveling this, it helps to begin at the beginning...

138 posted on 03/27/2009 3:48:32 AM PDT by WVKayaker (Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: WVKayaker
Sounds like you read little of what I have said...

Oh, I understood you completely. You said "...hear from God in a language he doesn't understand."

The Latin in the pre-Vatican II Mass were the prayers TO God (with English and Latin side-by-side in the missal). Readings from Scripture--hearing from God--were in Latin and English (or whatever the local language), and homilies were also English.

139 posted on 03/27/2009 3:55:04 AM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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