The Extraordinary Feature of Pope Francis's Mass: Latin

The Atlantic ^ | September 23, 2015 | Emma Green

[Biggirl]

Rather the 30,000 brands is about right.

[LurkingSince'98]

If humankind wasn’t ready - why didn’t Chrust wait.

Your response is incoherent.

[NRx]

Do you have a source for that?

[miss marmelstein]

Catholics, just as much as Protestants, have a duty to live up to Jim's gesture of solidarity. That means posting as a caucus controversial issues. And if the article mentions a Protestant denomination, I would advise thinking twice about posting it.

[RitaOK]

It seems stunningly simple to me, also. Thanks for the FR leadership.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

My first language is Spanish. Amazingly, after spending a week in Romania, I could understand about 80% of what was said to me because of it’s common Latin base. Italian is much more similar, but it just goes to show how strong the language skills stuck throughout the Roman Empire.
Even after two Millennia.

[defconw]

I know what the Mass sounds like in Latin. Why do you care?

[defconw]

AMEN! You know, from the Greek! ;)

[defconw]

Amen again, from the Greek! :)

[defconw]

I know what you mean. My church Latin and my high school Spanish allows me to understand the Holy Father (at least the major points when he speaks). Also I can kind of half read Italian.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

You should be able to, as both are very similar. Much more similar than Portuguese and Spanish.
I can understand written French just because of the similarities in their root language.

[MomwithHope]

I agree!!

[.45 Long Colt]

Luther wasn’t the first. He followed in the footsteps of other Catholics. Read about men such as Wycliffe and Jan Hus.

[knarf]

Yeah ... that's it ... after I learned that, I didn't care about Latin anymore (I was like ... 14 or 15)

Headed off to trade school where I shined.

[BlackElk]

"Omnia Gallia est in tres partes divisa." That opening line of Caesar's Commentaries on the War in Gaul is simple and easy to translate into English.

Likewise "Arma Virumque cano" which is the opening line of Virgil's Aeneid (Latin IV). I am sure that there are also memorable lines from various works of Cicero (Latin III) although his syntax is quite complicated. Of course, the translator's friend is a Latin to English dictionary. The traditional Catholic's friend is the St. Joseph's Daily Missal.

May God bless you and yours!

[BlackElk]

Puella pulchra (that young lady whom you might sensibly wish to marry and settle down with and have as many children as God chose to send you when both of you were of an appropriate age).

[EDINVA]

I’m witcha on that! The Latin Mass was not so difficult to understand at all. And it was universal.

[Maris Crane]

Thank you, BlackElk for the brief trip down memory lane.

It isn’t surprising to find that Latin is what they call a dead language, although it is still plenty useful, and I think the unusual sentence arrangement is what did it in.
Subject, object, predicate seems strange and was difficult for me. I admit I love the English language. For me, it has everything, if used properly.
Thanks again.
P.S. It wasn’t simple for me.

[knarf]

Ad deum qui latificat uventutem meum ... I never knew what I was saying