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Traditional Catholic Faith => The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers => Topic started by: josefamenendez on December 18, 2022, 08:04:04 AM

Title: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
Post by: josefamenendez on December 18, 2022, 08:04:04 AM
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Title: Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
Post by: Gunter on December 18, 2022, 09:35:42 AM
Praise God 
Title: Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
Post by: Ladislaus on December 18, 2022, 12:23:23 PM
NO have always implied that people are just too stupid to "understand" the Latin Mass.  Lay people should be insulted.  My father had a 4th grade education (dropped out to work for the family) but knew what every word in the Tridentine Mass means ... even if he couldn't conjugate a verb.
Title: Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
Post by: St Giles on December 18, 2022, 12:42:49 PM
It's easier to remember things in musical form.
Title: Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
Post by: Nadir on December 18, 2022, 02:12:15 PM
Beautiful! I would love to meet her in the flesh. Maybe one day (sigh).
Title: Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
Post by: Stubborn on December 18, 2022, 03:15:49 PM
That really is beautiful!
Title: Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
Post by: Nadir on December 18, 2022, 04:51:28 PM
NO have always implied that people are just too stupid to "understand" the Latin Mass.  Lay people should be insulted.  My father had a 4th grade education (dropped out to work for the family) but knew what every word in the Tridentine Mass means ... even if he couldn't conjugate a verb.
We were having conversations with the local NO priest,  a youngish Indian who knows very little except how to repeat rules and slogans. (No Aussie aspirants) He refused any literature we offered him. 

"In the old days the people could not understand the Latin, now the young ones understand and they love going to Mass." Of course. the answer to that was "then why aren't they going?" He is "doing up the church (major work and expense) for the future generations. What future generation?

The only Latin Mass in our diocese is once a month, offered in disobedience to the bishop and hidden, by the Anglican rite ordinariate. I made the mistake of going once (in our former diocese). They prayed for the queen during the Mass.

This dear lady may even still attend a TLM, (this was posted by a priest) but she obviously loves it. She believes every word she sings, I am sure. 
Title: Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
Post by: Meg on December 19, 2022, 07:58:34 AM
We were having conversations with the local NO priest,  a youngish Indian who knows very little except how to repeat rules and slogans. (No Aussie aspirants) He refused any literature we offered him.

"In the old days the people could not understand the Latin, now the young ones understand and they love going to Mass." Of course. the answer to that was "then why aren't they going?" He is "doing up the church (major work and expense) for the future generations. What future generation?

The only Latin Mass in our diocese is once a month, offered in disobedience to the bishop and hidden, by the Anglican rite ordinariate. I made the mistake of going once (in our former diocese). They prayed for the queen during the Mass.

This dear lady may even still attend a TLM, (this was posted by a priest) but she obviously loves it. She believes every word she sings, I am sure.

Though off-topic, just want to mention that I recently noticed that my Baronius Press missal for the TLM, published in London and sold by the FSSP here in the U.S., has a prayer for Queen Elizabeth among its prayers to be said for after-mass. It says for "England and Wales only, after solemn Mass on Sunday." Though it does seem to be asking for her conversion in the prayer, though not directly. It's rather odd, but maybe that's something that English Catholics traditionally have done. 

So nice to see the elderly in Africa who knows the Latin prayer by heart. It shows how unifying the TLM is, or maybe was, in her case. I hope she still attends the TLM.