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To: markomalley
Latin has but one advantage, and that is being universally unknown. Seriously, a common language that no one knows? Why not conduct Mass in Aramaic or Greek? I get the nostalgia for it, but why put the hurdle of a foreign language into Mass?

I put this in the same context as those who consider the King James Bible to be the original Bible, as written by the Hebrews and Apostles.

4 posted on 06/26/2014 2:59:22 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan
Latin has but one advantage, and that is being universally unknown. Seriously, a common language that no one knows? Why not conduct Mass in Aramaic or Greek? I get the nostalgia for it, but why put the hurdle of a foreign language into Mass?

"Put the hurdle" of a foreign language in the Mass is looking at it exactly the wrong way. You make it sound like the natural state of the Mass has always been the vernacular, and we'd be imposing some weird artificial language on top of it.

No. The Christian Mass was in Latin as a *conservative principle*. It's not a novelty we are imposing, it's a tradition we are retaining.

By the way, some parts of the Latin Mass are in Greek, and many Eastern Christians do in fact say the Mass in Aramaic (Syriac), even though their spoken language may be quite different.

5 posted on 06/26/2014 3:21:30 AM PDT by Claud
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To: SampleMan
Unknown? Only, since the late, great, Dewy became the god of government schools.

If your goal is to further the Tower of Babel then, yes, it's best bet to denigrate and avoid Latin.

Every jerk who wants to use a word definition that has changed twenty times in the past century is free to do so as long as they avoid Latin which has well know, unchanging, definitions and syntax.

Basically, avoiding Latin aids in altering the Truth while sticking to Latin is a major force for keeping the Truth unchanging as it's passed down over generations.

People who have changed every major doctrine they claim to believe at least a few times in only five hundred years naturally prefer the mailable nature of whatever language they use when quibbling about price with a hooker, talking to a divorce attorney, or purchasing contraceptives.

7 posted on 06/26/2014 3:37:43 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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