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[tagryn]

"Leak" of the upcoming changes to the English-translation of the RCC Mass. I like the attempt to be more true to the original - in this case, the revisions are correcting bad translations which were made in haste after Vatican II - but I don't know how well the congregations will react.

But, what the heck. They didn't ask our opinion when the Latin Mass was dumped, or when the altar rails were ripped out and the tabernacle shunted to the sides. Now that the shoe's on the other foot, I'm supposed to feel that the forty-year 'tradition' of the current Novus Ordo mass is inviolable?

Mind you, the Novus Ordo is all I've known for the most part, and it'll be uncomfortable initially to learn the new order of Mass, but there's enough familiar material left in there that most folks should have it down in a month or so, once the Bishops finally bite the bullet and allow the revisions to be issued.

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[erikred.livejournal.com]

Latin! Latin for all! And priests talking to the altar!

The rest of V.II can stay. (^_^)

[tagryn]

Now, now. There's a case to be made for a universal language to unite what is supposed to be a universal Church; I also think that aesthetically, using Latin sets apart what is supposed to be IMHO a transcendental/mystical experience from that of everyday life.

Does it have to be Latin? Not really. To your average American Japanese, Korean, Russian would be "just Greek to me" as much as Latin, but the Vatican ended up centered in Rome AFAIK thanks to the dominance of the Roman Empire at the time, and hence it ended up being Latin.

There's some folks who get worked up about this, there's others who think that using Latin is just a historical cop-out and because the Gospels were written in Greek, that's the language that should be used. I figure if you want to be a purist, Aramaic should be the dead language of choice, since that was Christ's native tongue.