Quotes About The Latin Mass

#1. It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

Janine Di Giovanni

#2. The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

Criss Angel

#4. Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

Ezra Pound

#5. Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.

Lewis Black

#6. Lynet scowled. I'm just so tired of young knights wearing their father's armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.

Gerald Morris

#7. English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

Richard Lederer

#8. The ancient liturgy, with its poignant symbols and innumerable subtleties, is a prolonged courtship of the soul, enticing and drawing it onwards, leading it along a path to the mystical marriage, the wedding feast of heaven.

Peter Kwasniewski

#9. What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

Harmony Korine

#10. Love is a divine power..that enlightened me always towards my destination ...

Santonu Kumar Dhar

#11. every summer has its own story
the tan will fade but the memories will always stay

Kiara Harris

#12. The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.

Ernesto Cardenal

#13. 60. The use of the Latin language customary in a considerable portion of the Church is a manifest and beautiful sign of unity, as well as an effective antidote for any corruption of doctrine truth.

Pope Pius XII

#14. Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.

Julian Assange

#15. If you want a church full of Catholics who know their faith, love their faith and practice their faith, give them a liturgy that is demanding, profound and rigourous. They will rise to the challenge.

Peter Kwasniewski

#16. Voices and faces aren't manifestations
of good or bad.

Gail Carson Levine

#17. I want to see religious instruction and sermons held in German in the mosques. The ideal, in my view, would be for imams to be trained in Germany and to speak our language, just as the Roman Catholic Church now holds mass in German and gave up Latin long ago.

Wolfgang Schauble

#18. I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Robert J. Shiller

#19. The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

William Joyce

#20. He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn't looked there in a long, long time.
He'd forgotten how bright it was.
So bright he could hardly stand it.

Sarah Addison Allen