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gopiscrap

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46. Latin

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 01:35 AM

Dec 2025

Felicum Natalem Christi
this was the language of the denomination I attended for the first 9 years of my life
(My congregation was slow to implement the reforms of Vatican II such as the language of the Mass being in the vernacular)

The vernacular (or language of the people) for me was
Frohe Weinachten (German)

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