And God forbid we understand what it is we are praying,,,,
Run, Dick! Run!
Did you just recently join the Catholic church? I mean, after you realized the snide comments you’ve made about the Catholics and The Church were wrong - did you join?
Otherwise, I don’t know why you are commenting within a Catholic Caucus thread.
“And God forbid we understand what it is we are praying”
So take a minute and 43 seconds and learn it. It’s not like they’re asking us to get a Ph.D. in particle physics.
Introducing the vernacular was a *disaster.*
Shall we take out all music to suit the deaf and all visual beauty to suit the blind? Shall we reduce the epistles of Paul to the syntax of the Simpsons?
You saw the prayer cited:
Keep us alert,
we pray, O Lord our God,
as we await the advent of Christ your Son,
so that,
when he comes and knocks,
he may find us watchful in prayer and exultant in his praise.
For whom but the inattentive is that too hard to understand? And if they cannot attend to elegance of language, why should we think they will make the required effort even if it is broken in to simple sentences?
How long have you been a Catholic by the way?
God forbid that you THINK you understand what it is you are praying, and do NOT. Take for instance, the word “consubstantial.” Not your everyday word, I grant you, but word important to understand. The English form of the Latin consubstantius which is the Latin form of the Greek Word homoousious. A term COINED by the Council of Nicaea in 325, and to what end? To stand in place of the Arian word Homoiousius. And why? Because the Arians denied that Jesus was God. The alternative offered by the Council Fathers, criticised by the Arians because it is not biblical, says he was. So by pronouncing that words you are saying UNEQUIVOCALLY that Jesus is God, the second person of the Holy Trinity.