Because hardly anybody understands it at all. So all that wonderful theology and miraculous economy of expression in the ancient collects and orations (such of them as survive) goes clean over the heads of generation after generation of Catholics. Instead of being immersed in Liturgical prayer, the prayer of the Church, they have to get it in second-hand formulations called "catechesis". The results are all around you.
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Because hardly anybody understands it at all. So all that wonderful theology and miraculous economy of expression in the ancient collects and orations (such of them as survive) goes clean over the heads of generation after generation of Catholics. Instead of being immersed in Liturgical prayer, the prayer of the Church, they have to get it in second-hand formulations called "catechesis". The results are all around you.
ReplyDeletewherein the logic of the NOM in Latin?
ReplyDeleteBecause the "laity" are too dumb to learn Latin. Didn't you know?
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