/lit/ - Literature

Sounds like blasphemy

cute girl, however it is No Thot November so I must pass from splurging all over her face

>>11993636
it's october

>>11993644
Today you learned about timezones, BITCH

>>11993650
dude it's october 26, it's not november anywhere yet.

>>11993673
Fuck you

>>11993644
THOTober

>>11993677
it's november in the rain

>>11993633
Proper prayer is about orientation of the soul towards God in the inner feeling. The actual words used or said are unimportant and can be left out altogether.
But to get off my soapbox and answer the question you're looking for, Pater Nosters and Hail Marys—I don't have any scholarly suggestions but you'll have to keep in mind the John 1:1 axiom that Christ is the Logos, the Word spoken by the Father. That is, the act of speaking holy words is deeply connected to the very interrelationships of Trinity itself. Speaking holy words thus is parallel to breathing out the Son. The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son in Western tradition, and so we understand that in this interplay between self and spoken word arises the Holy Spirit, and that this is the goal of the recitation.

>>11993724
Do you think that words spoken for millenia naturally are charged with some sort of ancient power?
Id est, speaking latin invokes the potency of life throughout the past ~3000 years
As well as these holy words, uttered by billions over the ages?

In other words, Jung's "collective unconscious"?

Lorem ipsum sit amet

>>11993752
>Lorem ipsum sit amet

Forgive my beginner's latin, dic in anglico quid dicebas, amabo te, O magistri

>>11993743
No. Lots of people do though, I met a Hebrew scholar once who made a living repairing Torah scrolls, very serious work, we talked and he said that based on the text of Genesis God actually spoke Hebrew. Heaven knows the Jews still don't say YHWH, and even write G-d to this day. Many Christians attribute near-magical significance to their prayers as well. Myself, I think the right Christian attitude is to walk in the newness of spirit, and not the oldness of letter--the words are meaningless, their intent or meaning is everything. Believing specific words have power is just magical thinking, in my opinion.

>>11993903
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

>>11993644
for you

>>11993633
Wrong, at a certain point in history the peasantry would attend Mass in Latin and would butcher the prayers and everything the preacher said.
The only things they sort of knew were some parables that were told to the children as tales, the comandments, and some convinient facts about 'charity"(donations) saving your soul.

>>11993633
Wrong, at a certain point in history the peasantry would attend Mass in Latin and would butcher the prayers and everything the preacher said.
The only things they sort of knew were some parables that were told to the children as tales, the comandments, and some convinient facts about 'charity"(donations) saving your soul.

>>11993724
/Thread

>>11993990
>"charity" (donations)
>t. Can't into Catholicism

>>11993942
what a tease

>>11994050
It's like you are trying to ignore that selling indulgences was a thing

>>11994070
You're making a bigger deal of selling indulgences than Martin Luther himself. At least Luther acknowledged it was against the Church's teaching to abuse indulgences and was condemned by the Pope.

>>11994149
What did I just said

>You're making a bigger deal of selling indulgences than Martin Luther himself.
So my short post was a bigger deal than Luther's 95 theses.
That's some credit you're giving me there.

>>11994149
>>11994170
Lol