{"id":4661,"date":"2006-11-13T09:43:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T09:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/mass-in-transit.html"},"modified":"2006-11-13T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T09:43:28","slug":"mass-in-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/mass-in-transit.html","title":{"rendered":"Mass in Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sandro Magister finally weighs in with a piece on recent rumblings on the indult rumor, bringing in the French episcopal reaction, in case you missed all that last week.<\/a><\/p>\n

Cardinal Arinze was in St. Louis this past weekend, speaking at the Gateway Liturgical Conference:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In his address on Saturday, titled, "Language in the Latin Rite Liturgy: Latin and Vernacular," Arinze said the Roman church used Greek in its early years, but was "Latinized" in the fourth century. "The Roman rite has Latin as its official language," he said. The great religions of the world all "hold on" to their founding languages \u2014 Judaism to Hebrew and Aramaic, Islam to Arabic, Hindu to Sanskrit and Buddhism to Pali. <\/p>\n

"Is it a small matter," he asked, for priests or bishops from around the world to be able to speak to each other in universal language of the church? Or for "a million students" who gather for World Youth Day every few years "to be able to say parts of the Mass in Latin?"<\/p>\n

In an hourlong, often humorous, address that received several standing ovations, Arinze suggested that, in order to give Catholics options, large parishes offer the Mass in Latin at least once a week, and in smaller, rural parishes, at least once a month. (Homilies, he said, should always be in the faithful’s native language.) Latin "suits a church that is universal. It has a stability modern languages don’t have," he said. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Any first hand reports welcome!<\/p>\n

The little NPR piece on the matter, which included person-on-the-street interviews<\/a> with Matt of the Shrine of the Holy Whapping<\/a> and Dawn Eden.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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