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latin mass chuckle

2/13/2023

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There is a screaming baby. Skip to about 16 minutes and find out why I put up this video.
St. Stephen Cleveland. Father Bede [pronounced bead] Kotlinski, OSB, teaches classical languages at Benedictine High School in Cleveland, and his ‘sweeping gestures’ and loud voice, despite the laryngitis, are perfect for an all-boys sch0ol.

​We had a little hiccup in our parish bulletin on Sunday. It read Sexuagesima Sunday II. Uh...that should be Sexagesima, a fraction based on sixtieths, as in the divisions of time, angles, and geographic coordinates. The Latin word for six is sex, and 60 is sexaginta.

Sexagesimal, also known as base 60 or sexagenary, is a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and is still used—in a modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates. - Wikipedia (and for our liturgical  calendar)
An analog clock has three hands. The short hand indicates the hour, the long hand indicates the minute of the current hour, and the thinnest hand indicates the second of the current minute. I have one in the house that runs on a battery in case there is a blackout.

Because of digitalization, young students today struggle with this concept. Any excuse, even math, to put up the Latin Mass? Altar boys have nothing from which to read. Even the little guys as young as seven, after First Holy Communion, are eligible and memorize everything to pass. St. Stephen Sacramento has 110, base 10.
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