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Post by iagosan on Feb 4, 2024 7:35:32 GMT
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Post by homeschooldad on Feb 4, 2024 14:42:15 GMT
Thank you for posting this. The Latin Mass is for everyone, and much of Africa speaks French, which is a Latin-adjacent language. (And then there is Portuguese, ditto, and even Spanish.) I really suspect, even if objectors are not conscious of this, that there is a hatred and fear of the TLM that goes beyond just scrupulous adherence to Sacrosanctum concilium (which, incidentally, allows for the use of Latin) and a filial piety that prompts them to "want what Francis wants". Where that hatred and fear comes from, you could speculate all sorts of ways. Let's just say that, despite everyone's best intentions, it may not spring from a good place. There is nothing intrinsic to the TLM that runs counter to African sensibilities (unlike, say, Fiducia supplicans...). If African faithful find a soulfulness in dancing and swaying back and forth, and if it's seen as a manifestation of piety to applaud at the consecration, neither of these things contradict what is in the TLM rubrics, and IMO they can be seen as legitimate forms of inculturation. Put it this way, if I were a missionary priest in Africa offering the TLM, I wouldn't tell the faithful they couldn't do that. Indeed, the TLM rubrics don't presuppose any particular form of piety from anyone except the acolytes, nor does it condemn any such form of popular piety.
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