Latin Mass

[myway]

I agree it is wrong to add or take anything away from mass. What do you think of the latin mass?

 

[Anhelyna]

Do you mean Mass being celebrated in the Latin language ?

 

[MikeK]

I like it. I am not about to criticize any licit Mass, as my preferences are petty when we're talking about the miracle of bread and wine becoming Our Savior, but I like the Latin Mass particularly well.

 

[anjelica]

I love the Latin Mass. We used to have it every Sunday afternoon in our parish, and it was just wonderful. However, the priest has now moved on and the new one can't do it. There is one about eight miles away which we always said we would start going to, but it has never happened yet as that Church is a bit hard to get into if you are disabled as we are.

I MUST make an attempt to go again soon, however. I do love it.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

I grew up with the Latin Mass. I like it, the Latin Mass for me evokes nostalgia. Though I can remember that many at the time were glad that the Novo Ordo Mass was replacing the Traditional Latin Mass. The oft refrain was, "we don't speak Latin" why is the Mass in Latin.

 

[Rhamiel]

there was development in the Latin Mass
some as there was liturgical development in the East too

 

[StRestlessHeart333]

I LOVE THE LATIN MASS!!! I wish there was a way to learn the prayers in Latin.

 

[RileyG]

I NEVER attended but have seen stuff on it on youtube. I love what I see.


BTW You mean the tridentine mass, as there is also the sarum-rite mass which is also celebrated in latin, there is also the ambrosian rite etc

 

[Fantine]

To me the Latin Mass means nostalgia.

It meant being up in the choir loft with the children's choir singing those Latin hymns and looking down at all the people and watching our choir director, a Dominican sister, playing the organ.

If I ever have to attend a Latin Mass again, I want to be up in the choir loft.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

I NEVER attended but have seen stuff on it on youtube. I love what I see.


BTW You mean the tridentine mass, as there is also the sarum-rite mass which is also celebrated in latin, there is also the ambrosian rite etc

Riley, you need to surrender your Avatar. I am issuing a "cease and desist" order against you. I had it first.

 

[GoingByzantine]

I think Latin is a beautiful language, rich and full of spirit. I however think that liturgy (mass) in the vernacular is better, because it allows one to understand the prayers and have a close relationship with God.

In my case I think Ukrainian, Greek and Church Slavonic are also beautiful languages, but I need my English. I like how my parish switches between a few different languages so everyone is involved.

 

[StevenMerten]

I remember the Latin Mass. I was only three or four years old. Even at my young age I wondered why not just say the Mass in a language I can understand?

 

[Azureknight 773]

I absolutely love the TLM/ Tridentine Mass since it is so solemn, especially if it is equipped with Missa de Angelis or Missa VIII since it accentuates the spirit of prayer. The first time that I attended it was in my parish, The Holy Infant Jesus (Santo Niño) Parish here in Valencia, Bohol when we invited a Black American expert of the Extraordinary Form for the The Holy Infant Jesus' vespers mass some 2 years ago. It had wonderful nuns that sang the songs of the Missa Cantata and I felt like I was no longer on Earth. It was surreal and chillingly awesome that I wish to go upstairs already due to the bliss of my soul.

 

[StRestlessHeart333]

Riley, you need to surrender your Avatar. I am issuing a "cease and desist" order against you. I had it first.

Having to look at the username instead of just the pic is annoying!

 

[RileyG]

Riley, you need to surrender your Avatar. I am issuing a "cease and desist" order against you. I had it first.

lol

 

[Dylan Michael]

I like the Latin mass. But I like all forms of the Mass. It's my goal in life to attend liturgy from each of the 22 Catholic Churches. I've been to 4 and counting eastern Churches.

 

[RileyG]

I like the Latin mass. But I like all forms of the Mass. It's my goal in life to attend liturgy from each of the 22 Catholic Churches. I've been to 4 and counting eastern Churches.

That's pretty awesome!

 

[Kingsdotter]

Love it!

 

[Meowzltov]

There is certainly a place for the Tridentine Mass. Latin is a beautiful language, with its wide open vowels. As a musician I prefer to have the unchanging parts of the mass sung in latin, although when it comes to teaching (as with the reading of scripture and homily etc) I am an advocate for the vernacular.

My only tiff is with those who think Latin is somehow magic. Latin was chosen by the western church for the mass specifically because in those days it was the lingua franca, the vulgar tongue of the people. There is nothing innately holier about Latin.

I have no problems with Rome making changes to the liturgy. The job of liturgy is to aid us in worship; it is not the performance of some magic spell. Alternative liturgies have always existed in the church. A good example is when Benedict officially okayed the Tridentine mass being said again, BUT with certain changes: one of which was that we will no longer refer to perfidious Jews in the Good Friday prayers. Terrific change!

 

[judechild]

My only tiff is with those who think Latin is somehow magic. Latin was chosen by the western church for the mass specifically because in those days it was the lingua franca, the vulgar tongue of the people. There is nothing innately holier about Latin.

It's true that, initially, Latin was the language of the liturgy in the West after Greek was no longer the dominant language, but there is something innately holier about Latin at this point, because there has been a change within Latin itself. It comes from having had centuries of contact with the liturgy, while no longer being spoken in common parlance (i.e. as a sacred language). Its function as a sacred language, has, over the centuries, changed the meaning and application of many of its words so that it is especially liturgy-oriented; Latin words and phrases are packed with liturgical and theological meaning. On just the natural level, just as contact with opera transformed Italian into an innately more musical language (so that I think it's appropriate to call it an ''operatic language''), Latin has become a language with a more sacred character (and hence, a ''sacred language'').

It's really a very incarnational symbol; contact with Christ has created a fundamental change in the character of the language, changing it from the language of Vigil to the language of the Church, Christ's body. I think that we've lost a concept of sacred language that we ought to recover.