Lecture on sacred Latin comes from Peter Kwasniewski. The lecture is too long, so here are highlights. Who am I to say that about a man with a PhD? Well, I just did.
He says that Latin is a reserve, poetic, and prestige language, as French was for the Russians of the 19th century, and he explains why a sermon in the vernacular did not evangelize the Mexican natives in the 16th century. The beauty of Latin and art did.
The apostles prayed and sang in sacred Hebrew, not Aramaic. All the eastern churches use their literary languages, not vernacular, during worship. The sacredness of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin is symbolized by the three-fold inscription placed on the cross by Pontius Pilate. Peter even said that Christ spoke sacred Hebrew during consecration.
Popes of the 20th century issued documents confirming Latin as the esteemed language of the Church, including John XXIII in October 1962! We use the 1962 Missal.
The vernacular English continues to be a “headache, earache, and heartache”, Peter said. I praised Descartes. Peter did not. He restated the obvious fact that youth are not of the old school that resides in the Vatican and some places in the US. He gives it 20-40 years for the modern Mass to disappear. He humorously says it will require an indult for the second Sunday of the month at 3:30PM.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIGEmKdquIQ
He says that Latin is a reserve, poetic, and prestige language, as French was for the Russians of the 19th century, and he explains why a sermon in the vernacular did not evangelize the Mexican natives in the 16th century. The beauty of Latin and art did.
The apostles prayed and sang in sacred Hebrew, not Aramaic. All the eastern churches use their literary languages, not vernacular, during worship. The sacredness of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin is symbolized by the three-fold inscription placed on the cross by Pontius Pilate. Peter even said that Christ spoke sacred Hebrew during consecration.
Popes of the 20th century issued documents confirming Latin as the esteemed language of the Church, including John XXIII in October 1962! We use the 1962 Missal.
The vernacular English continues to be a “headache, earache, and heartache”, Peter said. I praised Descartes. Peter did not. He restated the obvious fact that youth are not of the old school that resides in the Vatican and some places in the US. He gives it 20-40 years for the modern Mass to disappear. He humorously says it will require an indult for the second Sunday of the month at 3:30PM.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIGEmKdquIQ
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