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# Tuesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/36392/
- Published: 2015-03-31T07:19:46.000Z
- Updated: 2015-03-31T07:19:46.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Yikes, the bi-lingual Mass.

Can anyone tell me why I intensely dislike the bi-lingual Mass? My dislike is most intense when the priest does things twice (once in each language), but I don't like it even when he's just alternating between the two languages. Am I a closet racist against Mexicans? Perhaps, but the racism is buried so deep that I can't see it, and it would make Mexicans racist because one of my assistants, who is 100% Mexican, says the Mexicans dislike the bi-lingual Mass, too.

I sympathize with the priests who basically have two congregations to serve and simply can't do two Masses on certain occasions (like Maundy Thursday), and I certainly don't have a better idea than the bi-lingual Mass, but it doesn't change the fact that I really dislike it. I just wish I could figure out the source of the distaste.

Aside: I actually do have a better idea: Do the Mass in Latin. I have only one semester of Latin and was hopelessly lost the three times I went to a Latin Mass, but I could get the hang of it. Bring back a universal language and the liturgical tension that is the two-language parish would subside.

Of course, [people in Europe would say we have a universal language: English](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2436051/English-lingua-franca-Europeans-thirds-speak-language-squeezed-rivals.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). It is the new [*lingua franca*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua%5Ffranca?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Just as Latin was the *lingua franca* for over a thousand years because of the hegemony of the Roman Empire, English is the *lingua franca* today because of the hegemony of the British, and now American, empires. It doesn't make it right, but it does make it a fact.