{"id":1000,"date":"2008-06-21T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/21\/make-the-catholic-mass-latin-few-understand-the-mass-anyway.html"},"modified":"2013-10-02T18:44:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T23:44:20","slug":"make-the-catholic-mass-latin-few-understand-the-mass-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/make-the-catholic-mass-latin-few-understand-the-mass-anyway.html","title":{"rendered":"Make the Catholic Mass Latin, few understand the Mass anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why not make the Catholic Mass Latin? Few Catholics understand the Mass anyway. If they make it all Latin everyone can have a religious experience feeling that the<strong> Liturgy itself is Sacred<\/strong> and of course that somehow pleases God? Yet, you Catholics want to call your sacred rituals Christianity? What you do is no different then the mystical pagan priests who use magic words and magic rituals to appease the spirits. And some protestants say we should join with Roman Catholicism? Get real!<\/p>\n<p>Latin Mass and the Roman Catholic Church | Newsweek Religion | Newsweek.com<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As he reminds us in his memoir, &#8220;Salt of the Earth,&#8221; the young Joseph Ratzinger was deeply influenced, both spiritually and intellectually, by the mid-20th-century movement to reform the Roman Catholic Church&#8217;s public worship&#8211;a movement that helped pave the way for the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Father Ratzinger was a peritus, a theological expert, at the council, and like many others, he welcomed the council&#8217;s Constitution on the <strong>Sacred Liturgy<\/strong>: here was a ratification of the liturgical reform movement he had long supported and a blueprint for further organic development of the celebration of mass. In the immediate aftermath of Vatican II, however, Ratzinger became convinced that organic development had been jettisoned for revolution, the liturgical Jacobins being a cadre of academics determined to impose their view of a populist liturgy on the entire Catholic Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why not make the Catholic Mass Latin? Few Catholics understand the Mass anyway. If they make it all Latin everyone can have a religious experience feeling that the Liturgy itself is Sacred and of course that somehow pleases God? Yet, you Catholics want to call your sacred rituals Christianity? What you do is no different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,3,32],"tags":[342,57,348],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberrantheretical-teaching","category-apostasy","category-mystery-babylon","tag-apostasy","tag-heresy","tag-mystery-babylon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-g8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}