I learned in Mass today

[Commando]

To clarify, I know an immense amount about the Catholic Church and wasn't trying to imply that I'm joining it. Rather, I find the symbols in mass beautiful and powerful, and don't find it boring in the least. The worship it offers is deep and rich, and much more thought provoking than LDS meetings on a typical Sunday.

And that's the kind of space I need to be in these days.

I heard the latin readings are deep and rich and you can really get lost in meditation while gazing up at those dope murals.

[BlueK]

It was better in Latin. They sold out.

The Latin was one reason my mom left the Catholics. This was before they modernized.

[Topper]

I heard the latin readings are deep and rich and you can really get lost in meditation while gazing up at those dope murals.

Solon and All American can add to this, as I have only read rumors of it, but apparently the liturgical Latin was pretty dopey and not as elegant as the classical Latin.

[Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz]

Anybody ever been to an Eastern Orthodox service? Seems like on the surface it would be similar to Catholic mass, but my understanding is that to the extent Catholic and Orthodox theologies differ, the Orthodox stance is often closer to the traditional LDS stance.

[DrumNFeather]

Anybody ever been to an Eastern Orthodox service? Seems like on the surface it would be similar to Catholic mass, but my understanding is that to the extent Catholic and Orthodox theologies differ, the Orthodox stance is often closer to the traditional LDS stance.

Several years ago we had a guy in our ward who's mother was raised Eastern Orthodox give an EQ lesson on the similarities between the two. I remember it being pretty fascinating.

[pellegrino]

Anybody ever been to an Eastern Orthodox service? Seems like on the surface it would be similar to Catholic mass, but my understanding is that to the extent Catholic and Orthodox theologies differ, the Orthodox stance is often closer to the traditional LDS stance.

When you say "stance" what exactly do you mean?

Solon and All American can add to this, as I have only read rumors of it, but apparently the liturgical Latin was pretty dopey and not as elegant as the classical Latin.

Liturgical Latin is just a variant of medieval Latin, which is how Latin developed once it became primarily a written form of communication and not spoken as much. Saying that Medieval or Church Latin is dopey and less elegant is like saying that Robert Frost's language is pretty dopey compared to Shakespeare's language.

[Topper]

When you say "stance" what exactly do you mean?




Liturgical Latin is just a variant of medieval Latin, which is how Latin developed once it became primarily a written form of communication and not spoken as much. Saying that Medieval or Church Latin is dopey and less elegant is like saying that Robert Frost's language is pretty dopey compared to Shakespeare's language.

That is a poor analogy.

First, both versions of the language were spoken as a living language in your English example, whereas the Liturgical Latin was an Esperanto of the language developed by non experts. It's more akin to Koine Greek where the limits on all of the elegant variations of grammar found in Attic Greek. At least that is the impression I have received. (My initiation with Latin is very limited so if I am mistaken, I stand corrected). Perhaps I err, but it only makes sense that a living language is more alive and more varied than a dead language which cannot grow and instead will lose aspects as people forget how or why something is used.