{"id":574,"date":"2024-09-03T13:28:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/an-argument-for-the-preservation-of-the-latin-rite\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:28:05","slug":"an-argument-for-the-preservation-of-the-latin-rite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/an-argument-for-the-preservation-of-the-latin-rite\/","title":{"rendered":"An Argument for the Preservation of the Latin Rite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00c9tienne Gilson, writing in 1962:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Latin is the language of the Church. The sorry degradation of the liturgical texts by their translation into a gradually deteriorating vernacular emphasizes the need for the preservation of a sacred language whose very immutability protects them from the decay of taste. (<em>The Philosopher and Theology<\/em>, Cluny Media, 2020, p. 6)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Now why hadn&#39;t that argument occurred to me? It is so plainly cogent, and more <em>apropos<\/em> now than it was at the beginning of Vatican II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&#39;Thanks&#39; to the internet, the degeneration of the various vernaculars is accelerating.&#0160; Attempts to hold the line are rear-guard actions in the main. There is need of a dead language to offset the liturgy&#39;s slide into the morass of leftist cultural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/crapola\">crapola<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Death renders&#0160; immutable what was.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9tienne Gilson, writing in 1962: Latin is the language of the Church. The sorry degradation of the liturgical texts by their translation into a gradually deteriorating vernacular emphasizes the need for the preservation of a sacred language whose very immutability protects them from the decay of taste. (The Philosopher and Theology, Cluny Media, 2020, p. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/an-argument-for-the-preservation-of-the-latin-rite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Argument for the Preservation of the Latin Rite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-latin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}