Francis by Patrick J. Marrin for September 20, 2021

“I don’t know Latin.” Cute.

Pax Vobiscum, Brother Leo!

This definitely is the season of reactionary discontent.

You can tell the ex-Catholics at the Episcopal Church. They are the ones singing Adeste Fideles at the Christmas service.

I still think it sounds cooler in Latin.

Ad deum qui laetificat juventutem meam

What it means, I don’t know.

The Tridentine Mass is fine. But some of its adherents are horrible. And the idea that it’s the only proper Mass makes no sense at all.

i need one

Why not go REALLY Archaica Schola, and conduct it in Aramaic?

Help! It’s been 54 years since my last Latin class. I can read “Latin is” on the shirt, but what is aescio?

Classical Latin didn’t use commas, correct? Is that a Church Latin thing?

Why would they wear shirts that say, “I don’t know. It’s Latin.” ?

Romanes eunt domus.

I like the Latin Mass. And it wasn’t too hard to figure out or follow it in Latin with a Latin/English missal. The music and Gregorian chant are wonderful. And many composers wrote Masses too.

Thought about going to Mass when we were in Paris (couldn’t convince my wife, though), and that I’d probably do better in Latin than in French, having sung a number of Latin Masses in choirs, meanwhile growing up with a direct English translation.

Omnia mihi Graeca est.

What the hey, Mel Gibson built his own church so he and his father could have Latin Masses.

Carpe diem!

I think that means “Fish of the day.”

hoc nescio loqui latine lingua est,

That is indeed what it says- I don’t know, it’s Latin