How not to evangelize (unhelpful evangelization)
When I started writing for this site, I decided I wanted to write to spread the gospel and to tell people about Jesus. Yet, some of my colleagues use terms like “Novus Ordo priest”. This is not Catholic. Telling people to stay home and pray their rosary is NOT CATHOLIC. It’s those same people who worship the Latin language. You know why I don’t go the Latin Mass? Because Latin Mass people don’t talk about Jesus.
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I’ve been to Latin Mass a few times, not because I couldn’t understand anything, because I could barely hear the priest, who, in his defense, did his best, but the acoustics of the church were not great.
If you like Latin Mass, great, but, is Latin the language you worship in, or is it the language you worship?
I’ve noticed that these people seem to have a flat out superstitious view of Latin. I read something that said “demons flee from Latin”. They do? Do you honestly believe when Jesus rebuked demons, that he did it in Latin?
“Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils: freely have you received, freely give.” (Matthew 10:8)
Demons flee from holiness. You fight the devil with the power of God, not the power of a language.
Also, this weird obsession makes reunion with the Eastern Orthodox impossible.
This goes without saying, but the New Testament was (mainly) written in Koine Greek. Jesus, being Jewish (and Radtrads, largely being Anti-Semites, seem to hate that fact) would have read the Torah in Hebrew, and would have spoken Aramaic in his day to day life.
Show me, a single Church document that says that Latin is inherently holy. You can’t, because no such document exists.
And the nerve of these people. It’s just flat out insulting to Eastern Catholics, who, as a matter of fact, have NEVER used Latin.
Let’s get this straight, the faithful are obligated to go to Mass/Divine Liturgy on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation (The Obligation to Attend Mass on Sundays)
There are times when it can be dispensed (as it was during the early days of the Coronavirus).
But, obligation doesn’t mean “It’s not in Latin, so I can go home and pray the rosary”.
Keeping people away from the Sacraments is DEMONIC.
Keeping people from Christ and his Church, is something no “Catholic” can ever do. If you’re no longer a believing Catholic, SAY IT.
As for SSPX, Bryan Mercier is right; From SSPX to Catholic! (Becoming Catholic from a Cult of extremism), and yes, SSPX is that. Debate me, but don't you dare pretend SSPX is Catholic.
“Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint, and anise, and cumin, and have left the weightier things of the law; judgement, and mercy, and faith. These things you ought to have done, not to leave those undone.
Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.” (Matthew 23:23-24)
*All verses are from the Douay Rheims.
And if you want a good, reverent, Latin Mass, FSSP