Hi Dr. Blosser,

I've posted my latest reply:

http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2...a- ecclesia.html
steve hays | Homepage | 03.15.07 - 6:43 pm | #

Dear Dr Blosser,
my heart is with traditional Catholicism, and I view with sorrow many of the innovations that came aboard "in the name" of Vatican II.
Nevertheless, the movement to make the liturgy intelligible by translating it into vernacular I can only approve.
While deploring the populist approach to Christianity, it seems to me that insisting that the prayer of the Church is effective in Latin but not in other languages (like for example the rite of exorcism) is a misunderstanding of the nature of the Church's authority, and the nature of prayer. The liturgy of the Mass is the most perfect prayer we have, in any language it is translated in. Certainly those who wish to hear the Mass in Latin have a right to do so, but in my mind they justify the need to establish the difference between rite and religion.

Andrea
22 March 2007
Andrea Stengel | 03.22.07 - 6:48 am | #