Roman Catholic Mass was at one time universally celebrated in Latin, the ancient Roman language. After the second Vatican Council in the 1960s, Mass was allowed to be celebrated in the language of the ...
LATIN has been the official language of the Catholic Church. Papal documents are promulgated in Latin. Church documents, most ...
It’s a practice for several parishes in my home diocese to chant the Kyrie, Sanctus, Memorial Acclamation (“Mortem Tuam”), and Agnus Dei in Greek and Latin at Sunday Mass during the season of Lent.
“Why do most languages stem from Latin?” asked a student in Gregg Thompson's sixth-grade social studies class at Woodland Middle School in Gurnee. Nearly 1,000 years B.C., Indo-European tribes settled ...
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The course was still offered when I was taking Spanish at Brookings High School some six decades ago. Although we had Spanish Club with its rituals and games I don’t recall those in Latin class having ...