Ignorance of the essentials of the faith is culpable.
And there's the difference, what is considered 'essential' to the faithful teaching of the Church. When I receive Eucharist, I fully believe in a real presence of Christ, as was the belief before any attempt to define how this presence came about simply in defense against those who denied a real presence.
I reject the notion that the Tridentine Mass was some impossibly complicated ritual too hard to follow. I reject the notion that it was just 'too demanding' for a Catholic to comprehend the ordinary of the Mass simply because it was in Latin. Get a bilingual missal and use your brain. It is the same text week after week.
Complicated ritual had nothing to do with it. What you apparently refuse to do as a Catholic is to acknowledge the Council of Trent had no more authority than the 2nd Vatican Council.
Shepherd of Hermas (ca. 150), Justin (ca. 150), Hippolytus (215) 9 Even when Rome began to reach the height of its power (215) and Latin began to make its appearance, Greek still maintained an ecumenical position in the liturgy of Rome. From the epitaphs in the Roman catacombs belonging to the primitive centuries, and the countless Greek loanwords in our present-day Latin. So Greek—which was the cosmopolitan language even before Alexander's conquests—was to last in the Liturgy of the primitive Church until the third century. The history and rubrics of the Oriental Liturgy have impressed on that central act of worship the pronounced character of
public worship."13Therefore, in consonance with its very nature it was celebrated in a language familiar to the people.
During the ensuing years, the gulf between the language of the Liturgy and the language of the people widened. Nevertheless in due consideration of the many problems involved, Greek in the Liturgy ceded definitely to Latin in the fourth century because Latin was then the common language of the people.
Library : Liturgical Languages | Catholic Culture
In chapter 65, Justin Martyr says that the
kiss of peace was given before the bread and the wine mixed with water were brought to "the president of the brethren". The initial liturgical language used was
Greek, before approximately the year 190 under
Pope Victor, when the Church in Rome changed from Greek to Latin, except in particular for the
Hebrew word "
Amen", whose meaning Justin explains in Greek (γένοιτο), saying that by it "all the people present express their assent" when the president of the brethren "has concluded the prayers and thanksgivings".
"For not as common bread nor common drink do we receive these; but since Jesus Christ our Saviour was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nurtured, is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus". (First Apology 66:1–20 [AD 148]).
The descriptions of the Mass liturgy in Rome by
Hippolytus (died c. 235) and
Novatian (died c. 250) are similar to Justin's.
Pre-Tridentine Mass - Wikipedia
Sorry, I remain convinced the reason for your love of Latin is only the surface, beneath which is your repudiation of the 2nd Vatican Council.
Francis understands this very well.
the world leaders should defend and help christians!! It is a shame they don't defent and help christians against persecution!!!
