Against a vernacular liturgy: The Church should have a sacred language by PETER KWASNIEWSKI for Life Site News ‘Pentecost shows that the apostles spoke to everyone in their own language — and it wasn’t Latin.’ This is true, but there’s more to the story. As we prepare to celebrate the great feast of Pentecost — a feast so great in the eyes of the Church that it was celebrated for eight days (i.e., as an octave) in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church going back to the late sixth…
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MEASURED SPEECH
MEASURED SPEECH by Dave Jenkins for Servants of Grace Ecclesiastes 5:1-7, “Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. 2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. 3 For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many…
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The Power of Language and Reason To Keep Original Text Intact by Randolph Jason – Gospel News Network Several years ago it became quiet clear one of the reasons for the development of Twitter was for the complete destruction of language. If you people speaking in some sort of nonsensical code that only applies to one environment, well, those people become extremely easy to control outside of that limited environment. Don’t get me wrong I like twitter, I use twitter, but I also understand it’s purpose and do all that…
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