Re: R: Re: R: Latin pronounciation

At 7:24 pm +0200 18/10/00, Mangiat wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
>
>> >I've heard a
>> >couple of times priests speaking among them in Latin, but if they used
>> >different pronounciations they wouldn't understand anything (hey, the
>mass
>> >in Latin is one thing I like of Le Febvre)!
>>
>> The homily tends to be a bit heavy going for most in Latin  :)
>
>Really, is also the homily in Latin? But before the Vatican II it wasn't,
>was it?
A joke!  I've never heard a homily in Latin - but I have heard homilies in
both Zulu & Hungarian!  At least _I_ would've understood it better in Latin
on those occasions  :)

>> Ray,
>> a lover of both Latin and the Mass (but not Lefebvrism).
>
>Hey, hey! Not that I like LeFebvre's doctrine, but the Mass in Latin is
>something really neat!
Yes - but in the new rite with the priest facing us instead of mumbling in
scarcely intelligible Latin with his back to everyone as in the old days.

Yes - much of the Midnight Mass last Christmas was in Latin at our local
church.  Mt daughter, who now lives mostly in the US was most impressed.
Recent emails have made me realize why?

BTW Mass is Zulu is nearly all sung - very beautiful.

Ray.



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