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Mohammad Khan's avatar

There's a special pleasure in hearing sermons in the original tongue.

Hearing Khutbahs (sermons) in Arabic is a treat. The enunciations, structure, and poetry flow differently than said in English.

When you say it in English, it feels transcribed and stilted.

In Arabic you can feel the words flow like a stream of wisdom.

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Drake Greene's avatar

Our parish in a small town in Connecticut holds a Latin Mass every Sunday. But not just a Latin Mass, the Tridentine rite, which requires three priests and careful liturgical coordination and choreography. I find that there is a profundity to the Tridentine rite, a feeling of connection to the great sweep of theological and liturgical history and I'm sorry to see it go. I guess that our pastor is a bit of an outlaw in the eyes of the Vatican. But I will say that the Latin Mass attracts a cult-like following, at least in this parish, that can lead to insularity and an unwelcome attitude. The ultramontane lives on, unfortunately.

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