Posted on 02/25/2014 2:03:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Maybe he should step into a Catholic church. One faith. Multiple ethnicities. That was one of the benefits of the use of Latin. You could go into any church in the world and have the same Mass. No balkanization.
Yeah, I can see the advantage. Every church service in Latin where less that 5% understand vs the local language where all but 5% understand. Much better.
What is the lesson of Pentecost to you when the apostles spoke to the crowd in their respective languages?
Let us not forget that the Catholic church is the universal Church. The evangelization of the world to Christ is not immune (for lack of a better word) to practical considerations. One of those is to preach the same message to all regardless of linguistics. Latin was and is unifying. As it was in the past and still is today.
Perhaps there is too much emphasis on “partcipatory” worship.
I stand by comment and the acts of the apostles. I don’t want to attend any of your further lessons.
So be it. Have a nice day.
Fifty years of vernacular liturgy and "active participation" by the laity and what do we have to show for it? Two, going on three, generations of people who can't articulate the Faith in any language whatsoever.
No church should sacrifice it’s doctrinal values for the sake of a more diverse congregation.
This is kind of silly. What the heck do they mean by “multicultural” ?? In theory shouldn’t the Church be of a singular “culture” ??
Multi-racial or Multi-ethnic seems like it would be a more appropriate term
So what?
people want to worship where they want to worship.
are they bitching that black congregations are racist for being black?
jeez some people have nothing better to do.
they don’t actually care about the people,but what their skin color is, and what percentages of which color is around, like that alone is evidence of good or bad.
it’s just so tired.
the diversity industry is a big, stupid, racket.
I guarantee you -- my congregation is a WHOLE lot more welcoming to non-Caucasians than any inner city "historically black" Baptist congregation would be to me!
WELL SAID
My dad grew up in a town of less than a hundred people. It had a Swedish Lutheran church, and a Norwegian Lutheran church. All attempts at ‘multiculturalism’ failed. My dad explained why: “The Sweeds sung three hymns and the Norwegians sung two. There was just no way you could compromise on that.”
not my responsibility to show anything.
I’d have more respect for the Romeulans if they adopted Aramaic instead of Eurotrash Latin, the latter of which was adopted centuries ago in support of the Empire that persecuted the early Christians.
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