Catholic Word of the Day: HOMOOUSIOS, 01-30-10

It's not even the same as Latin. Most of the Church Slavonic words are intelligible to the Slavs, especially the Serbs, or at least they should be. Latin is not. So, in the case of CS it is more like a few dozen words. In the older times, CS was taught in schools, and it really is similar to Shakeseparian English compared to modern English.

But, imitating the Vatican II, the Serbian Orthodox Church started using modern Serbian mixed with Curch Slavonic in the early 1960's, to the point where most of the divine liturgy is in the former which is not best suited for the liturgy; the reaosn being is that Slavonic lirturgy was written for the CS; it flows better in CS, such as "Gospodi pomolimsya" vsersus "Gospodu se pomolimo."

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