![]() The nature of a soul’s conversation with God during the liturgy and the way a particular rite influences that prayer are topics for another post. For now, I’d like to point out that in establishing his Pontifical Council for Latinity, Benedict is not seeking merely to promote wider use of the Extraordinary Form or even intending to restore Latin as the liturgical language already guaranteed “pride of place” by the Second Vatican Council. Curiously, an expression commonly used by Catholics before the liturgical reform, “assist at Mass,” has long fallen out of use, replaced by “attend Mass.” Which verb suggests greater participation? Thus, in an effort to underscore something very important that Pope Benedict XVI did last year, I call it again, perhaps, to your attention. Last November, with a motu proprio titled Lingua Latina, the pope established the Pontifical Academy for Latin.īenedict’s appreciation of the Latin liturgy is one thing that is hard to have missed if only because opponents of his efforts to revive what we now call the Extraordinary Form do not stop their public fretting over a return to the bad old days when, as they argue, Catholics passively knelt at Mass unable fully to participate. ![]() Many things the Holy Father does -probably most -go unnoticed by the majority of Catholics, and I fear His Holiness’s new Twitter account is unlikely to change that for more than a passing instant, so much do our attentions these days flit from one experience to the next. If I still have you reading after one complex compound sentence, you are probably in the minority of blog readers.
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