Someone recently left a comment under one of my YouTube videos and it was in response to several LAZY commenters leaving on my Latin Mass videos, saying things like “yeah, but no one understands Latin”
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I call them lazy because, to be honest, if you really wanted to, you could always learn Latin.  It’s not like it is such a big deal to learn a new language these days, as many people are learning 2nd or even 3rd languages, thanks to the growing popularity and accessibility of language forums, YouTube videos and even language apps.  So, anyone still whining in this day and age about how difficult it is to learn a very easy language, Latin, is just mentally lazy and trying to come up with lame excuses to justify their slow and lazy intellect.
I even have several book recommendations (see below) for learning Latin and for understanding the Latin Mass, but the mentally slow and lazy will always find something to complain about. Spare us, puh-leeze(!)

You may not have learned it growing up, but you have ZERO EXCUSE for not attempting to learn it as an adult…….or should we spoon-feed it to you? like a baby???!

Anyway, so the commenter responded by saying  “Well, that is due to the failure of inadequate catholic education. From a very young age, Jewish children learn Hebrew and commit the Torah to memory. Ditto with Muslim children who, from a young age, attend lessons in the mosque and they learn Arabic and the Koran.”

And I have to admit that this person is absolutely right.
Many Catholics do not understand Latin unless they are above a certain age and attended the really old masses of the past, or they attended Catholic schools or had a Classical education – here in the UK, that would usually be at expensive private schools or universities like Oxford and Cambridge. 

Educating the laity on Latin is definitely something the TLM and traditional Catholic community should take into consideration. Weekend or evening classes or even online courses in Latin (specifically Ecclesiastical Latin which is very different to Classical Latin) and church liturgy or catechism should be offered to everyone, especially young children. It should be offered for free or at minimal cost, situated perhaps on the parish church website.  

As a traditional Catholic and TLM community, we cannot grow or indeed thrive if we lack the basics, which are comprehension of the Latin language. And it should honestly put us to shame that Muslims and Jews have a better grasp of understanding the importance of educating their children in the universal language of their religions.

As a result, no matter where a Muslim is in the world, regardless of their ethnicity or their own native or cultural language, they can all worship at any mosque and understand and communicate with each other because they all share the same universal language – Arabic. 

Ditto for Jews. All Jews across the world can attend synagogues wherever they go, and can communicate with, understand, and support each other as they all share the same universal language, which is Hebrew. 

For the Catholic Church to truly be One, Catholic and Universal, as she claims, she must, at the very least, share the same universal language, and that language is Latin – again, more specifically ECCLESIASTICAL LATIN – not Greek or Aramaic, as some ignoramuses want to claim – because since time immemorial, the Church’s seat of power, the seat of St Peter, has been based in Rome, Italy, whose original language was Latin, and its liturgy has universally been in Latin too.

Also, see Why Latin Is The Language Of The Church and this too.

And learn more about Ecclesiastical Latin in the Catholic Church HERE and HERE.

It is right, just and appropriate that a universal church should have a universal language for its liturgy.  The Jews and Muslims understand this and have their universal language. We did too……..until Ecumenism, Novus Ordo, and Vatican 2 threw it out.  It is time that we reclaim what was stolen from us.

 

And this isn’t something that only Catholic women should do. If you are a man and you are not one of those misogynistic trad Catholic frauds, you are supposed to exhibit the masculine trait of leadership by not just learning Latin, but also teaching your family Latin.

Learning Ecclesiastical Latin is essential for traditional Catholics and in fact, all Catholics, as not only is it the universal language of the Church, but it is also the one thing to differentiates us from Protestants.

We cannot claim to be traditional Catholics without having a basic knowledge of the traditional universal tongue of the Catholic Church. We can and should reclaim Latin back, just as much as we have reclaimed other traditional elements of the church, such as veiling, betrothals, churching of women, amongst others.
And I have a ton of resources below to help get you started. So, you now have no excuse.

Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, pray for us 

 

MORE RESOURCES 

PLAYLISTS ON ECCLESIASTICAL LATIN

 

 

   

 

 ad Jesum per Mariam

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