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Is there any Catholic Church in London where Mass is celebrated regularly (or even occasionally) in Dutch? I have received an enquiry about this but since I don't know of anywhere myself, I thought the best thing would be to ask here. If you have any information, please either leave it in the combox or email me.
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Multi-culturalism really highlights a problem of having Mass in the vernacular... !
@ Juventutem London - good point! In Florida, two Masses can take place simultaneously in the same parish - one in English and the other in Spanish. Thus the Church has become a focus of disunity and a dangerous symbol of the non-integration of Hispanic immigrants. Hilariously and without any sense of self-irony, Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor complained about the failure of Polish Catholics to integrate. Yet he and his generation have been the most aggressive proponents of the vernacular liturgy. Thus promoting and facilitating the ‘right’ immigrant Catholics choose to exercise on entering a country as guest workers. The more one experiences of the Vatican II revolution, the more ridiculous and out of touch it appears.
All the Dutch-speakers I know in London wouldn't go anywhere near a Catholic church.
Given the standard of English Masses offered in the Netherlands, I wonder whether such a request is even sensible. Unless the priest is extraordinarily fluent in a language which is not his mother tongue, would it be possible to offer a vernacular Mass in a truly reverent way? I've heard all kinds of bizarre English accents by priests offering Mass here, mangling things to the point of intelligibility. Surely the advantage of Latin in this international situation (combined with bilingual Missals for the faithful if necessary) is clear.
There is a Father van der Most based at Littlehampton, West Sussex. He might know.
@Sadie Vacantist Very good points you make.Am a Sspx man,and i attend their masses in London.Low mass or Missa Catanta Tridentine Latin,wonderful masses which makes you proud to be Catholic.Have you seen the Bishop Fellay sermon on the 12th Jan 2011 Paris,concerning Assisi.Wonderful to hear.As Bishop Fellay has said before,there is crisis in the church,and under the Papacy of Benedict XVI,it will only get worse.The Ordiniriate is a prime example.Not good.
there is CATHOLICISM FOR DUMMIES in Dutch, however ;-)
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