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1 posted on 04/20/2005 6:53:47 AM PDT by royalcello
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To: murphE; St. Johann Tetzel

Here's the other one, for your ping list.


2 posted on 04/20/2005 6:54:21 AM PDT by royalcello
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To: royalcello
"There were tears in my eyes as I heard the Latin words absolving us of our venial sins and explicitly imploring for us the grace of final perseverance. "

As a protestant with catholic relatives, I struggle to understand this. Is this more than nostalgia for "the way it used to be?" At the beginning, the Church, however structured, was decidedly not Latin. Worship was in the vernacular, or at least the lingua franca. Is there a belief that God prefers one tongue over another? Is there power in a particular incantation, is it a matter of poetry? I'm not trying to be a smarty, I just don't understand that use of a particular language rises to the level of doctrine.

5 posted on 04/20/2005 7:23:25 AM PDT by cookcounty ("We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts" ---Abe Lincoln, 1858.)
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To: royalcello

One has to wonder, given that the gulf he spoke of in 2001. I would welcome adding Latin to the Novus Ordo Mass. I think we may also see some postive action on some (irritating) dispensations that were granted in the past.


10 posted on 04/20/2005 7:55:49 AM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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