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To: american colleen
Well, since I almost majored in Classics (couldn't get enough Greek in 4 years because I was also taking German), I have no problem with Latin.

In fact, when I was a kid my family travelled in out of the way places all over Central America and the Caribbean. We'd often find ourselves at Christmas or Easter on a Spanish or French island or in Mexico without an Anglican church - so we would go to a Catholic church for Mass. My father (who is a Born Salesman and speaks fluent Italian) would pay a call on the parish priest earlier in the week, explain our predicament, and ask for emergency communication (since as High Churchers we believe in the Real Presence). I don't think we were ever refused.

ANyhow, the point of all this is that I still have somewhere my old Latin missal - and it actually is BETTER than the vernacular service, because whether we were in Mexico, or on a French, Dutch or Spanish island, the service was always the same!

20 posted on 09/10/2003 7:32:48 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
ANyhow, the point of all this is that I still have somewhere my old Latin missal - and it actually is BETTER than the vernacular service, because whether we were in Mexico, or on a French, Dutch or Spanish island, the service was always the same!

I use my grandmother's 1962 missal when I go to the indult Tridentine. I like the Mass in vernacular but we sure do lose that "communion of the saints" and the "all that went before" unity.

Going to a Mass in a foreign country (where English is not the spoken language) is not as easy as it used to be. You know what part of the Mass it is but it is the music that throws me. At least if it were chant (hard to find) or some of the traditional Latin hymns you could join in that. I recently went to a French Mass (Quebec) and didn't mind even the homily being in French and not understanding it but I did wish the music wasn't in French.

My daughter is taking 1st year Latin and so far is really enjoying it. She asked if we could go to the Indult as soon as she learns the "Our Father" and the "Hail Mary" (she can do the sign of the Cross) in Latin... she said she thought she might now get a lot more out of it since the language no longer seems so foreign to her. :-)

21 posted on 09/10/2003 9:01:41 AM PDT by american colleen
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