From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-01 02:33, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:37:45 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-12-31 20:20, rbowman wrote:   
   >>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:51:04 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Admittedly, just being a Catholic seems a lot easier. It's like   
   >>>> choosing Ubuntu over Gentoo.   
   >>>   
   >>> It probably has changed with the increased latitude from Vatican II but   
   >>> it was comforting when the Mass was the Mass. Like a Big Mac it was the   
   >>> same no matter what church you wandered into. The homily might differ   
   >>> or be in the local language but the liturgy was the same.   
   >>>   
   >>> Protestants are like a box of chocolates.   
   >>   
   >> My father thought that it was important to go to mass while visiting   
   >> Britain even though I did not understand a word of it.   
   >   
   > Latin Mass?  Latin is Latin although I assume the reading were in English.   
      
   No, it was in English. But my knowledge of the language was primitive   
   then. And mass uses (used?) an old version of English.   
      
   > My  favorite part was   
   >   
   > P. Ite, missa est   
   > R. Deo gratias   
   >   
   > Usual translation:   
   >   
   > P. Go, the Mass is ended   
   > R. Thank God   
      
   The Spanish version is longer.   
      
   Podéis ir en paz.   
   Demos gracias a Dios.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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