The narcissistic mindset of today’s world

[saveliberty]

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The narcissistic mindset of today’s world

 

Bookworm on Feb 04 2012 | Filed under: America

For almost a thousand years, Catholics around the world, as part of their mass, have taken responsibility before God for their own failings:

Confíteor Deo omnipoténti et vobis, fratres,

quia peccávi nimis cogitatióne, verbo, ópere et omissióne:

mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa.

Ideo precor beátam Maríam semper Vírginem,

omnes Angelos et Sanctos, et vos, fratres,

oráre pro me ad Dóminum Deum nostrum.

Or, as translated into English:

I confess to almighty God

and to you, my brothers and sisters,

that I have greatly sinned,

in my thoughts and in my words,

in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,

through my fault, through my own fault

,

through my own most grievous fault

;

therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin,

all the Angels and Saints,

and you, my brothers and sisters,

to pray for me to the Lord our God.

I’ve always found extraordinarily beautiful the single phrase italicized above: “mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa,” which I translate in my mind as “I have sinned, I have sinned, I have grievously sinned.” The Latin has a lovely rhythm, and I like the murmuring “m” that is repeatedly cut off by the hard “c” and “p.”

 

[saveliberty]

Read the whole thing.

[Sanguine]

Very good, SaveLiberty.

[saveliberty]

Thank you, @Sanguine!

[pollyannaish]

Fantastic. Thank you.

[Valin]

@saveliberty

 

Confíteor Deo omnipoténti et vobis, fratres,

quia peccávi nimis cogitatióne, verbo, ópere et omissióne:

mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa.

Ideo precor beátam Maríam semper Vírginem,

omnes Angelos et Sanctos, et vos, fratres,

oráre pro me ad Dóminum Deum nostrum.

 

LATIN! oh ick. Why would anyone want to learn Latin! What could we possibly learn from those old dead guys. I bet The Gracchi couldn't make it on Dancing with the Stars.

[Valin]

Now that I'm done (for now) being snarky I'll read the article.

[Valin]

I also like the sentiment expressed. It’s not that I believe that most of us spend our lives perpetually sinning, especially carrying out grievous sins on a routine basis.

 

Wouldn't that depend on who is defining grievous sinning? I am of the opinion that God (and I mean no offense to our atheist/agnostic sisters and brother) has a slightly broader definition of the term grievous sinning.

 

"mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa"...now that takes me back to 1958 St. John the Evangelist Church.