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>>>THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED FOUR YEARS AGO. STILL A HOT TOPIC.>>>> The Vatican recently announced a return to the Latin Mass for congregations that wish to use it. Much of the world was bewildered or bemused. Oh great, old-fashioned religionists will be listening to sonorous noise that nobody understands. Ah, but what if they did! I believe the Pope’s decision is a great opportunity, both for spiritual enlightenment and educational advances. Perhaps I should mention that I’m not a Catholic or someone who goes to religious ceremonies of any kind. I write as an education activist; in that context, let’s...

I have to admit that I have a great partiality for the (ancient) Greek language, and often have pangs of regret that we do not use it more in the Roman Church. But this is a matter of personal liking, and I suppose if it was of huge importance I could always beaver off to some Eastern-rite Church, or become Orthodox. Yet somehow, whether it's Latin or Greek, not English seems to be important. Why is that? It matters whether we are talking about liturgy or other matters. We tend to think of the liturgy in such questions, but Latin...

This is an online dynamic version of the Breviarium Romanum according to the rubrics of 1961... each office of each day is constructed on the fly so that all of the appropriate prayers, hymns, psalms, commemorations, etc. are displayed with no input required from the user or needing to follow different links to obtain the required information.