In today’s paper, the Vatican announced that the pope is
bringing the study and usage of the Latin language back.
I took Latin for four (4) years while attending Holy Redeemer
High School
Well, my mother who was in charge then, wanted for me to
become a doctor (MD) and in her mind doctors wrote out their prescriptions in
Latin therefore they must know and need the Latin language so I guess, I would
be once step ahead to becoming a doctor by knowing Latin.
I don’t totally disparage her rationale for making me take a
“dead” language since people that took French or German, speak those languages
as well as I speak Latin today.
I remember the class was as boring as it could get. We had
to read and translate Virgil’s Aeneid but most of us just bought the
translation and the nun never caught on…or did she?
Anyway, the pope, as mentioned in countless blogs of yore’
is desperately trying to roll back the clock and reject the reforms of Vatican
II. He feels things were better in those days and he would like to go back to
those better days.
I have always maintained that babbling in a language no one
understands while pushing holy smoke around and spraying holy water on
everything sure made things feel a lot more “mysterious” and “holy” and
“sacred”.
And I feel the pope’s rationale is the less they understand
the better and he is historically correct. The language was only used and
understood by high clerics (lowly priests did not know Latin but could recite
in the language) who then imparted the meaning of those Latin words to the
great unwashed masses.
You see the benefit, if only you understand the language you
can tell the Catholic twits anything and they have to believe you…changing the
mass into English, etc. just created too many problems as the idiots in the
pews started asking too many questions.
The pope’s plan makes sense me thinks it maybe too late to
go all the way back. Its like China ,
once you gave them a taste of freedom and success, you cannot go back to the
Communistic ways of yore’.
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