Posted on 06/14/2021 11:54:49 AM PDT by ebb tide
Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen, 89, is worried about possible restrictions Francis may impose on the Traditional Latin Mass.
On his blog OldYosef.hkdavc.com (June 12), he makes a point in stressing that he is "clearly not considered an extremist" of the Roman Rite and that he has worked actively for the Novus Ordo as a priest and bishop.
Nevertheless, Zen cannot deny the good that came from the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. Through the Roman Rite, many young people of Hong Kong have "rediscovered the sense of adoration and reverence we owe to God, our Creator.”
Zen writes that he “cannot forget" the Mass of his childhood. In Shanghai, his father took him to Mass every day and to five Masses on Sunday [while it would be impossible for a contemporary boy to stand the verbiage of five Novus Ordo services in a row].
As a boy, Zen felt the deep reverence of the Roman Rite and was fascinated by the beauty of the Gregorian chant. This experience has nourished his vocation to the priesthood, “as in the case of so many others.”
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Why have a church service in a language that nobody speaks or understands?
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Because it’s beautiful and puts one in a meditative mood.
He didn't prescribe the details. Presumably Jesus left it up to those doing the remembering. It seems to me that the Pope interfering in this celebration by believers moves the emphasis from Christ to the Pope. It also demonstrates the complete lack of Christian humility on the Pope's part.
In my opinion the Pope is an Argentine leftist street thug, devoid of any Godly intentions.
If this Pope thought he could get away with moving fast enough, Jesus would be out of the Church next.
It’s a “dead” language — which means it isn’t subject to changes that degrade the content or meaning of what is written and said over time.
While that is certainly true, and that’s why it’s used in scientific classification, no one who hears it spoken aside from some elderly priests and college profs that still teach it, it has no more meaning to the hearer than Mandarin Chinese to a aborigine.
If you want to spread the gospel, use the language of the listener. That what the Day of Pentecost showed us....................
I don’t agree, but if you want a secular “church” you are on the right path. And that’s what’s coming, churches will be the equivalent of social clubs in twenty years if the Left has its way.
Interestingly, the universal nature of Latin makes it ideal for global proselytization. It's ideal for churches in national capitals where diplomats from many different countries live. If each one of them shows up at a Latin Mass with his own missal, nobody will have any trouble following the Mass in his own language.
We, I am presuming you aren't a Catholic, certainly use the local language to evangelize and share the good news of the risen savior. We have done so for 2,000 years. However, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is an ancient sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ himself at the Last Supper. It has been done in Latin for eons. It doesn't matter at all whether the audience is entertained by it or even understands it. The recent use of the vernacular language, if anything, has arguably only served to reduce people's understanding of it.
The Mass is a prayer. It’s not primarily about “spreading the Gospel,” but about worshipping God. In ancient times, the catechumens were led out of the church after the first part of the liturgy was over.
Zen and the Art of Tridentine Maintenance.
God doesn’t understand Latin? Besides, most of the Mass is not celebrated for YOU; it is directed toward God.
You clearly don’t know what the Catholic Mass is about.
Because it’s not a service.
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