Popes have recommended that Catholics learn the ‘core’ prayers of the Faith in Latin, regarding it as highly advantageous so to do. Bishop Andrea Gemma, one of the Church’s more prominent exorcists of modern times, stated that “demons have a horror of language” and that “the devil is happy with the near-disappearance of Latin.” Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger wrote that “hatred for the Latin language is inborn in the heart of all the enemies of Rome.” The exorcised later attested that at that instant the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared and vanquished the demons back to the abyss. In this Taylor Marshall podcast (from about the 2:00 mark), Jesse Romero recounts how an ineffectual exorcism turned lethal for the fallen angels when the Hail Mary was upgraded to Ave Maria. ![]() Thus, prayers offered in Latin are more likely to be heard by God that is, regarded as meritorious and thus favoured.Įxorcists attest that the devil hates Latin and that prayers made in Latin have a weaponised efficacy. John 19:19-20) and, thus, is a relic of the Passion. Latin is an ‘anointed’ (holy) language, having being nailed to the Cross with our Lord (cf. The employment of Latin has recently been contested in many quarters … We have therefore decided to issue the timely directive … so as to ensure that the ancient and uninterrupted use of Latin be maintained and, where necessary, restored.” ![]() This solemn document gave very specific instructions as to the continued primacy of Latin within the Church and categorically stated “We impelled by the weightiest of reasons … are fully determined to restore this language to its position of honor, and to do all We can to promote its study and use. In the Apostolic Constitution Veterum Sapientia (1962), Pope John XXIII, quoting his predecessors Pius XI and Pius XII, declared that the “Latin language must be esteemed a treasure of incomparable worth” and characterised the language’s nobility as of a “concise, varied and harmonious style, full of majesty and dignity making for singular clarity and impressiveness of expression.” Latin is rich in beauty, mathematical in logic and scientific in precision and is therefore vivid, exacting and immutable. ![]() Great saints and popes have proclaimed that Latin can be regarded as God’s merciful remedy to the punishment wrought upon man for the Tower of Babel: it is the common and unifying language of the Catholic Church.
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