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!! And also with your spirsoloasopirtpairdadsov *looks around in awkwardness*
P. Sit vis nobiscum
R. Et cum vis tuo.
Okay … probably all wrong since it came from Google Translate.
–Guy
and with your midichlorians
Whether true or not, it’s at least a popular urban legend that many Catholics in movie theaters reflexively spoke that answer when Alec Guinness said, “The Force will be with you always.”
Re: the great and ominous march
Even more ominous when played by a Scottish pipe and drum band.
“Honestly, I prefer Talk Like Shakespeare Day….”
I find your lack of faith disturbing : ) !
I’m of the same mind as you Fr. I like Talk Like Shakespeare Day better too.
I never liked the whole “the force” theology. Acting like there’s this supernatural power that can be tapped into. Maybe I’m just weird, but I’ve never been comfortable with it…
@ghp95134
You were pretty close.
Its actually: “Et etiam cum vobis”. (Although, with the new translation…, we might be better off just using “Et cum spiritu tuo.”)
Google Translate came out pretty good on that one, though. It’s always annoying because I can’t do my Latin homework on it; it never declines properly!!!
BTW, one of my friends and I translated “The Devil went Down to Georgia” into Latin. (And, no, we did not use Google Translate.) :)
Since we now have the Ordinariate, shouldn’t it be legal to say: “And with THY Spirit?”
Is there a Star Trek Day? I am tired of all the Star Wars hype. “Really boring, is Manichean dualistic philosophy, is it not?”
abdiesus, that’s how I made the transition last Advent — and, “and with thy” is a little easier to say than “and with your,” IMHO.
Fr. Z., my mind is reeling at the thought of the vestments you might be wearing if you processed in to that march — and would you carry a lightcrozier afterwards?
Supertradmum, your point is taken. Nonetheless, I’d rather be a brown-robed Manichee in a galaxy far, far away than a sixties-era Modernist in a form-fitting space suit.
JosephX23…there are alternatives…one could be a short, irritating fuzzy teddy bear look alike…or better yet, Marvin on a good day
Well I did have a Lutheran friend who said he would have converted on the spot if Cdl. Ratzinger had chosen the papal name Vader I.
“May the force be with you”. George Lucas unforutunately, did not know what it is.
I think one of the best things about Star Wars is the music score (for all 6 films). However, I don’t know if playing John William’s “Imperial March” would be liturgically acceptable… unless it were done on a pipe organ, of course! ;-)
And alsoooo … the fifth ?
Two words: Liturgical helmets.
I don’t know if playing John William’s “Imperial March” would be liturgically acceptable.
Hmm… Maybe some appropriate Gregorian chant could be shoehorned into that tune?
I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I have had real success at singing the Star Spangled Banner to the tune of the Soviet national anthem. (This was to test my theory that the Star Spangled Banner could be sung to any tune whatsoever and it would sound neither better nor worse than when sung to an old British drinking tune.)
I think the “Imperial March” from Star Wars would be okay. Do you all remember what was played on the Vatican’s outdoor loudspeakers as Benedict XVI rode around St. Peter’s Square after his installation Mass? It was Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (BWV 565) – something my fellow Americans tend to associate with horror films!
I hoped at the time that the Holy Father was signaling his intentions for his pontificate but, alas, it hasn’t been as dramatic as I hoped.
I’m still hoping, however. :)
There is … always … International Talk Like … William Shatner Day … on … 22 March.
“Hmm… Maybe some appropriate Gregorian chant could be shoehorned into that tune?”
There is the piece known as “The Emperor’s Theme” that uses a male choir.