Romans 6:5 Si enim conplantati facti sumus similitudini mortis eius: simul, et resurrectionis erimus; For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection.
Mark 8:8 Et manducaverunt saturati sunt; And they did eat and were filled.
Dear Traditional Latin Mass Faithful,
In the Traditional Latin Mass there are two readings from the Sacred Scripture at each Mass, usually an epistle from St. Paul and then a selection from one of the four gospels. This form of the lectionary is so ancient that we have sermons going back to the earliest centuries of the Church’s life preached at Mass on exactly the same Sundays as they are preserved in the Traditional Latin Mass calendar. These homilies are the reflections of countless saints, doctors, and even Church Fathers, who heard the Scripture passage selections read or sung just as we do at the Traditional Latin Mass today. Amazing!! Just using this ancient lectionary links us to the Church’s bi-millennial Tradition in so many ways. When purchasing a Latin-English Missal I recommend the ones with the full Latin and English texts, so that even the readings from the Bible can be looked at in the Latin. The translation of the Bible into Latin is called The Vulgate Bible. It is interesting to note that Harvard University Press has just published a handsome six volume (seven books) edition of the Vulgate Bible with Latin on one side and the traditional English translation of the Latin on the other. The editors acclaim the profound influence the Latin translation has had on Christian faith and life and on Western civilization and culture. In most of the Church’s history the Scriptures were read and heard not in the original languages, nor in the vernacular, but in the official Latin text. Even in the reform of the liturgy after Vatican II Rome has proclaimed that the official Catholic Bible, and thus the new lectionary, is a new translation into Latin and thus called the New Vulgate. Midwest Theological Forum has just published an elegant edition of the New Vulgate Latin Lectionary for use at the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
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