Do You Know Latin? Rigid Bishop Refuses to Grant Holy Mass
Valter Tuninetti wrote on AlleatiEucarestiaEvangelo.Blogspot.com (1 March) about his attempts to persuade his diocesan bishop to allow the celebration of the Roman Mass in his diocese. Tuninetti doesn't …More
Valter Tuninetti wrote on AlleatiEucarestiaEvangelo.Blogspot.com (1 March) about his attempts to persuade his diocesan bishop to allow the celebration of the Roman Mass in his diocese.
Tuninetti doesn't name the bishop or his diocese, but he is from Bra, which belongs to the diocese of Turin, whose archbishop is Roberto Repole, an alleged "theologian".
On 11 December 2023, Tuninetti went to meet the Bishop to hand him the 36 signatures of the faithful of his diocese to request that a Holy Mass be celebrated in the diocese.
During the meeting, the prelate asked Tuninetti whether all thirty-six signatories knew Latin well - and how they had learnt it, whether at school or on their own, whether out of pure passion or for other reasons (sic).
Seeing Tuninetti's surprised look, the bishop justified himself: "Ah, because you have to know Latin well. You have to understand what is being said... This is precisely why the liturgical reform decided to replace Latin in the Mass with national …More
Tuninetti doesn't name the bishop or his diocese, but he is from Bra, which belongs to the diocese of Turin, whose archbishop is Roberto Repole, an alleged "theologian".
On 11 December 2023, Tuninetti went to meet the Bishop to hand him the 36 signatures of the faithful of his diocese to request that a Holy Mass be celebrated in the diocese.
During the meeting, the prelate asked Tuninetti whether all thirty-six signatories knew Latin well - and how they had learnt it, whether at school or on their own, whether out of pure passion or for other reasons (sic).
Seeing Tuninetti's surprised look, the bishop justified himself: "Ah, because you have to know Latin well. You have to understand what is being said... This is precisely why the liturgical reform decided to replace Latin in the Mass with national …More
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Naomi Arai
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I don't understand why they don't just attend at the SSPX chapels. There are three chapels in and around Torino. I don't expect that bishop to move a hair.
Of course that modernist bishop is also omitting that canonical requirement that all seminarians AND priests have a "facility in the Latin language." This rule is absolutely ignored and students are even held under suspicion if they request it. True story from my experience - some of us seminarians (in the 90s) asked for a Latin elective and we were told: "Why would you want that in the modern Church …More
Of course that modernist bishop is also omitting that canonical requirement that all seminarians AND priests have a "facility in the Latin language." This rule is absolutely ignored and students are even held under suspicion if they request it. True story from my experience - some of us seminarians (in the 90s) asked for a Latin elective and we were told: "Why would you want that in the modern Church? You should study Spanish which is the "future" of the U.S." Well, long story short, we actually did get the course BUT only because a lay woman wanted it too to fulfill her language requirement for her "Lay ecclesial ministry" masters in theology. 
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I used to travel to Hungary a couple times a year for business. Hungarian is one unique language: there’s nothing else like it in Europe. I was able to find a Church there that offered the TLM and there, I understood everything except the homily.
The Traditional Mass is pedagogical. My generation learnt the principal parts of the Mass as preparation for first Holy Communion (age 7), grade 2. then were prepared for serving on the altar once that milestone was attained. Clearly we were better educated in 1952, as were the clergy!!
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One does not have to know Latin to benefit from the TLM.
However, what is being exposed here is what we might call a self-fulfilling prophecy: stop teaching liturgical Latin in Catechism classes/school/ seminaries, then interrogate everyone to see if they know Latin or not, discover - surprise surprise! they don't know Latin, then declare they don't know Latin and therefore the TLM should be …More
One does not have to know Latin to benefit from the TLM.
However, what is being exposed here is what we might call a self-fulfilling prophecy: stop teaching liturgical Latin in Catechism classes/school/ seminaries, then interrogate everyone to see if they know Latin or not, discover - surprise surprise! they don't know Latin, then declare they don't know Latin and therefore the TLM should be cancelled!
However, what is being exposed here is what we might call a self-fulfilling prophecy: stop teaching liturgical Latin in Catechism classes/school/ seminaries, then interrogate everyone to see if they know Latin or not, discover - surprise surprise! they don't know Latin, then declare they don't know Latin and therefore the TLM should be cancelled!