The combox is quite fun. the first comment by "Jon" earns its own comments in red:
this is a really dumb idea. we all know how the readers of NLM are going to answer? [Not as dumb as you not knowing that this isn’t NLM! o{]:¬) ]"Paul the Other" starts off
Cerevisia bibo. Oops! Wrong poll.Slightly more attentive, Daniel Muller says
Latin.One good question was raised by a psychiatrist locally in a discussion of this issue: "In what language does God speak to you?"
So much easier than the pickle question.
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English. He knows I hate having to deal with the ablative absolute or deponent verbs.
Dear Fr Tim,
The shrink is superficially clever, no?. Really he posits specious cant, or is that tautology, (this week has tired a lot of us out. BXVI can give me 17 years: he's still running and I'm fit to drop!)
El shrinko confuses Liturgical language with that of 'private revelation'.
When God speaks to Pope Benedict as I am convinced He does, He has a choice of at least 6 languages, not to mention Bavarian dialect, which I gather the Ratzinger brothers use in their fraternal converse. Jesus Christ is THE WORD. He knows all languages and communicates in all. Bavarian dialect is a possibility in the case of our Pope. 'In part-ic-u-lar-re', considering His Blessed Mother's communication with St. Bernadette. And, of course, sometimes God doesn't use human words at all, to communicate with His chosen souls. I suspect that language and words are irrelevant now, in the understaningn between this Pope and God.
En tous cas, God could speak gibberish to this Pope, and he would find a translation! And yet he continues to take Polish lessons from 'the other' secretary. I shouldn't be surprsiese to hear that he has also been learning Russian.
P.S. i voted for Latin, of course.
I think that Fr Z misinterpreted Jon's post. I don't think that Jon wasn't aware of what blog he was on I think that he meant that readers of NLM who took the poll were most likely to choose Latin.
Jane - I don't think he was referring to private revelation but to the fact that God does not always "speak" to us in human words. God communicates with us in a way too deep for words. The problem with the idea of trying to make the entire liturgy intelligible is that if we think that the liturgy is now entirely within our comprehension, then we have got something badly wrong. I think that this was the point "el shrinko" was trying to make.
BTW I will tell him today of his new nickname ;-)
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