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Show Law of Language. Says a correspondent of the London Catholic Times: "I most solemnly protest pro-test against the common expression 'said mass.' The mass is a sacrifice, is celebrated, and cannot be said Does not this savor of ultra-purism? ultra-purism? "Say" is .the expression quoted quot-ed has the sanction of reputable usage all over the English-speaking Catholic Catho-lic world: and. whether or not it was once of questionable propriety, it is now assuredly correct. Use is the law of language: and when practically all Catholics use "saying mass" as the eouivalent of "celebrating mass, the exfcres?if0 means just that, the protests ofdWentin purists to the contrary notwithstanding. Ave Maria. |
