Re: Do***enta Latina @ Vatican website

Ed Cryer wrote:
> "John Briggs" <john.briggs4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:MzkWj.36$_K5.35@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Ed Cryer wrote:
>>>
>>> P.S. I love a Catholic mass in Latin. It's superb theatre, and it
>>> refers back so far in history that I can visualize St Augustine
>>> doing it.
>>
>> Which Augustine?  It would be a bit of a stretch trying to
>> reconstruct a version for Hippo.
>
> He was the one I meant. Were you thinking of the one sent by Pope
> Gregory to this isle of angels? The one who turned back to Rome out of
> fear of crossing France? But somehow got second wind and made it to
> Canterbury?
> He's no hero of mine. But Augustine of Hippo is.
>
> So then, has the mass changed since 400AD?

Yes - continuous development. The post-Vatican II changes were the most 
drastic for 400 years - but those 400 years had been somewhat exceptional 
:-)
-- 
John Briggs