Posted on 01/06/2019 8:05:27 AM PST by a little elbow grease
‘The priest droned on in Latin, in Latin.’
you’re so well informed, I’m sure you know those Marines grew up with the TLM, and were well aware of the responses needed, which are actually very few...add to which the readings are in fact read in the vernacular, and the Canon is read silently, and most people can see that a Latin Mass poses no significant barrier to its efficacy...but of course you knew all of that, being so informed and all...
However, the modern language is English inspite of your rationalizations.
Shortage of applicants or high turnover with heterosexuals perhaps?
Well stated.
Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam...
Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea: quare me repulisti, et quare tristis incedo, dum affligit me inimicus?...
Et introibo ad altare Dei: ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam...
Spera in Deo, quoniam adhuc confitebor illi: salutare vultus mei, et Deus meus.
At least I know that my father, who was one of those Marines (Guam, 1944, and Okinawa, 1945), had been an altar boy.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union I saw a few articles and reports about a secret initiative by Josef Stalin in the 1950s to undermine the Catholic Church by covertly enrolling homosexual communists in seminaries all over the world.
A short snippet on the council that organized the study: The German Bishops' Conference is the episcopal conference of the bishops of the Roman Catholic dioceses in Germany. Members include diocesan bishops, coadjutors, auxiliary bishops, and diocesan administrators.
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