Anthony and I read part of his religion book today. Mass and the Sacraments, A Course in Religion, Book 2. By Fr Laux. Copyright 1934.
Why read an old book?
Well, we read old and new. Just as we might read Shakespeare today and Terry Pratchett tomorrow, so we read religion books of old..and of new.
The Faith is unchanging.
Excerpts of note, and of discussion today ~
The advantages of having one liturgical language, and that an unchangeable one, are obvious: ( Don't you just love this heading? Made us smile. The unchangeable. One language, Latin. The advantages being so obvious one need hardly state them?)
The use of the same language throughout the Church promotes the unity and union of its members..
The liturgy would have lost much of its sublime and venerable character if, in the course of time, as often as the words of a living language would change their meaning, or become obsolete or trivial...(Do we still think of Mass in terms of being venerable? )
Wherever a Catholic goes, the language of the Church makes him feel at home...
The Mass being a sacrifice, and not merely a form of prayer or a sermon, it is not necessary to understand all the words said by the priest in order to take part in the service...( Ah. Sharing this with other family members later, Greg and I stopped. To talk. Have we lost the notion of sacrifice, of how to participate and pray at Mass without external, audible participation?)
There were other arguments, listed by Fr Laux, but these were the ones that stood out for us, that made us talk. That made us think.
Homeschooling religion, for all the family.
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