Very often the following is heard from Newchurchers: "to find the Traditional Latin Mass useful, you have to understand every word of it." Is this a Catholic teaching or just another false Novus Ordo notion?
Reply.
This false notion has never been the Catholic one, nor is it the teaching of any major religion in the world. Not a single major world religion uses a vernacular tongue in its sacred services, the only exception being latter-day Protestantism. Even Martin Luther wanted sacred services to be in the three sacred tongues, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
Do the Novus Ordo sectarians understand their invalid Novus Ordo service better because it is dished out in vulgar tongues? Apparently not. Recent evidence indicates that very few Novus Ordinarians can recite the Apostles Creed or even the Hail Mary. That is notable, given that even Vatican II demanded that the disobedient Novus Ordinarians know in Latin the Pater Noster, Confiteor, Credo, etc.
Reply.
This false notion has never been the Catholic one, nor is it the teaching of any major religion in the world. Not a single major world religion uses a vernacular tongue in its sacred services, the only exception being latter-day Protestantism. Even Martin Luther wanted sacred services to be in the three sacred tongues, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
- Mohammedans use not modern-day vernacular Arabic in its sacred services, but classical Arabic, of the time of Mohammed (approximately the 6th century after Christ). Moreover, Mohammedanism imposes the severest penalties upon those who would presume to "translate" the original Koran into modern tongues.
- Hindus use Sanskrit, a classical language, roughly contemporaneous to Latin and Greek. It has not been a vernacular language for over a millennium.
- Buddhists use classical Chinese, of approximately the time of Confucius, the 6th century before Christ.
- The Eastern Orthodox (those who have not gone "modern") use Biblical Greek, which dates from the 2nd century before Christ.
- Roman Catholics (those who have not gone over to the New Order sect) use ecclesiastical Latin, which dates from various times from the first millennium after Christ.
Do the Novus Ordo sectarians understand their invalid Novus Ordo service better because it is dished out in vulgar tongues? Apparently not. Recent evidence indicates that very few Novus Ordinarians can recite the Apostles Creed or even the Hail Mary. That is notable, given that even Vatican II demanded that the disobedient Novus Ordinarians know in Latin the Pater Noster, Confiteor, Credo, etc.
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