I PROMISE I AM WORKING ON IT. ALL OF IT. (Though, really, you know you're taking the fic research too far when you're trying to figure out where your copy of the Catholic Catechism is. Not that it would matter since Leckie would be receiting pre-Vatican II prayers, which means Latin, but STILL)
Oh, I have all the Latin Rite translations out of the ones I didn't know. My Catechism was one of those whole "New American Catholic" things, which always had a slightly different version of the Apsolte's Creed in it from the one I learned, but I think that's because when I was little it was hard-line Roman Catholic thing?
Either way, half-way through I realized that, for the sake of reader audience, I wasn't going to throw in much of the Latin outside of "common phrases most people know" like Ave Maria, gratia plena etc etc. When you start to go into the Angelus you tend to lose people, you know?
The Leckie prayer thing is for a pre-during-post war ficlet that I'm working, so pre-Vatican II means Latin Rite.
Naw, most American Catholics I know in the South are wanna be Anglicans. I grew up Roman Catholic, with a strong tradition/connection to Rome and slightly more "mystical" Irish Catholic traditions. I mean, it might be different in big cities (it certainly is in CLT), but I grew up with a small town Catholic church where my public school classmates started shaming me for not going to Sunday school. We also had pretty terffying stations of the cross going on. It wasn't like the new-wave of Catholicism which is, honestly, going for the whole "Buddy Christ" thing.
I mean, you take some really tough Roman Catholic hardliners, put them in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, the traditions pretty much stay the same.
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Either way, half-way through I realized that, for the sake of reader audience, I wasn't going to throw in much of the Latin outside of "common phrases most people know" like Ave Maria, gratia plena etc etc. When you start to go into the Angelus you tend to lose people, you know?
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Naw, most American Catholics I know in the South are wanna be Anglicans. I grew up Roman Catholic, with a strong tradition/connection to Rome and slightly more "mystical" Irish Catholic traditions. I mean, it might be different in big cities (it certainly is in CLT), but I grew up with a small town Catholic church where my public school classmates started shaming me for not going to Sunday school. We also had pretty terffying stations of the cross going on. It wasn't like the new-wave of Catholicism which is, honestly, going for the whole "Buddy Christ" thing.
I mean, you take some really tough Roman Catholic hardliners, put them in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, the traditions pretty much stay the same.
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