{"id":45690,"date":"2019-02-09T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=45690"},"modified":"2019-02-12T08:50:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:50:07","slug":"viewpoint-liturgical-vernacular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/09\/viewpoint-liturgical-vernacular\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Viewpoint:<\/i> Liturgical Vernacular"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Msgr. M Francis Mannion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those who are attached to Latin in the liturgy (mostly in the context of the Tridentine Mass) would do well to attend to what is happening in the Greek Orthodox Church in America. A recent study by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/info\/23704\/faculty\/6382\/george_e_demacopoulos\/1\">George Demacoupoulos<\/a> of Fordham University proposed that the Greek Church should consider dropping the ancient Greek currently used in the liturgy and move toward English or modern Greek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The principal impetus for this is the fact that congregations are dwindling at an alarming rate due in great part to their incomprehension of the current language of the liturgy. This is especially true of young people, who are unable to connect with the liturgy because of the language problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I bring this up because of the attachment of some Catholics to the Latin Mass. If they do not know what is going on in the liturgy (even with the use of a Latin\/English missal), their attachment is apt to be merely aesthetic. 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