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I thoroughly enjoy Latin Mass.
I thoroughly enjoy Latin Mass.
I thoroughly enjoy Latin Mass.
I thoroughly enjoy Latin Mass.
According to the order's grand master the decision was taken 'for the sake of uniformity on a global level,' but critics within the order say it's part of a campaign against traditionally more inclined members.
The irony is deafening. The Mass was never more uniform worldwide than when they were all conducted in Latin. You could go to Mass in the Philippines, Brazil, Niger, the Congo, France, and Poland...and they'd all be the same. You could partake in each one and know what was happening. Now they're fragmented by the vernacular.
Before the new Mass, a native English-speaker could attend Mass in a non-English-speaking country and follow something like 90% of the Mass because he was already familiar with the Latin.Latin is not needed these days. Much better that EVERYONE can understand and participate in the mass in their own native language. I have attended latin mass but felt it was so fragmented and detached from the congregation from what was going on.
Before the new Mass, a native English-speaker could attend Mass in a non-English-speaking country and follow something like 90% of the Mass because he was already familiar with the Latin.
That is no longer the case.
That's not good and that's not bad either. It simply is. But at the same time, it's also undeniable that the Latin fosters greater unity than vernacular ever could. Yours is a quite peculiar objection, I must say.
The irony is deafening. The Mass was never more uniform worldwide than when they were all conducted in Latin. You could go to Mass in the Philippines, Brazil, Niger, the Congo, France, and Poland...and they'd all be the same.
Not just jet travel like tourists
But in an age of multicultural societies with large numbers of diverse nationalities making up the population of every major city