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My Macedonian mother in law said to me that there are parts of the Greek Orthodox Divine Liturgy that are in Latin, as she does not understand what the priest is saying. As Greek is her second language, (Macedonian being her mother tongue) could it be possible that the priest is actually speaking "Old" Greek and she can't understand it ?

Thanks Brad

Liturgical Greek is not modern Greek, and speakers of modern Greek will not recognize it, most likely. But the Divine Liturgy in Greek has no Latin, although some have been confused before after hearing "Kyrie, Eleison" in the Latin Mass. Kyrie eleison is Greek, though.

Please ask your mother-in-law which parts of the Divine Liturgy she refers to, as I am curious.

Gaudior, inquiringly.

The only use of Latin that I can think of is the tradition of the multi-lingual Gospel reading on Pascha (Easter).

Yours,

hal

I once had a Coptic Orthodox gentleman, a "deacon" in his church (whether he was a reader or subdeacon, I'm not sure), who told me that a lot of their Liturgy during Lent and Holy Week is in Latin. I was slightly confused, but I figured he was actually referring to Greek.

Dave

Dear Friends,

I had five years of high school Latin.

But it was "Greek" to me!

Alex

Alex:

Like you I forgot my Latin conjugations surprisingly after I learned the inflections and nuances of conjugal relationships.

Amado

Most of the Latin I studied has been forgotten, too. I always said my relationships were more Platonic - play for me, and tonic for her