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Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2022, 09:35:42 AM »
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  • Praise God 


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    Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
    « Reply #2 on: December 18, 2022, 12:23:23 PM »
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  • 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.

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    Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
    « Reply #3 on: December 18, 2022, 12:42:49 PM »
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  • It's easier to remember things in musical form.
    "Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect."
    "Seek first the kingdom of Heaven..."
    "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment"

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    Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
    « Reply #4 on: December 18, 2022, 02:12:15 PM »
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  • Beautiful! I would love to meet her in the flesh. Maybe one day (sigh).
    Help of Christians, guard our land from assault or inward stain,
    Let it be what God has planned, His new Eden where You reign.

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    Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
    « Reply #5 on: December 18, 2022, 03:15:49 PM »
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  • That really is beautiful!
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
    « Reply #6 on: December 18, 2022, 04:51:28 PM »
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  • 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. 
    Help of Christians, guard our land from assault or inward stain,
    Let it be what God has planned, His new Eden where You reign.

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    Re: Old African Woman remembers her Latin
    « Reply #7 on: December 19, 2022, 07:58:34 AM »
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  • 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.
    "It is licit to resist a Sovereign Pontiff who is trying to destroy the Church. I say it is licit to resist him in not following his orders and in preventing the execution of his will. It is not licit to Judge him, to punish him, or to depose him, for these are acts proper to a superior."

    ~St. Robert Bellarmine
    De Romano Pontifice, Lib.II, c.29