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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Could it be that Rome doesn't really want to get back to the Bible at all, but instead wants to chain again the Bible to the alter and translate it back into Latin to keep the unwashed congregants from knowing the truth within it?

I don't think you are so stupid to not know that bibles before the printing press were worth quite a bit. BTW, Latin is not a forbidden language, I hope my Catholic Church returns to it so that all Catholics across the world will be united again. Luceat Lux Vestra. Don't be a lump of coal.

1,327 posted on 04/25/2010 12:03:00 AM PDT by Hacksaw (Best wishes for Bret Michaels.)
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To: Hacksaw
I actually can understand why some RCs might want a return to the uniformity of Latin in the mass.

But I don't think that inclination in any way out-weights the benefit that comes with every congregant understanding every word that is spoken to them from the pulpit.

When the mass is in Latin, it seems to me to be too easy to simply fall into a kind of trance surrounded by the visuals of pomp and the sounds of the repetitive chanting and the incense and the rote responses, etc.

Scripture is supposed to penetrate our minds so that we actually think about what the words and ideas and concepts mean.

That's why Paul tells us one gift of the Holy Spirit is a renewed mind which is able not just to experience the things of God, but to really understand the things of God.

"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." -- Romans 12:2

Or from Hebrews...

"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." -- Hebrews 10:16-17


1,330 posted on 04/25/2010 12:20:47 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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