Today, my friend John Arbuckle and I visited the Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France (designed by Le Corbusier in 1955). During the mass held while we were there, visitors were allowed in but asked not to take any photographs. It was all in French, of course, and I first thought that when the church opened, the mass would still have been in Latin, as vernacular languages only began to used in Roman Catholic services after the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). And then I thought of French singer Georges Brassens (1921-1981) and his 1976 song "Tempête dans un bénitier": "Sans le latin, sans le latin, / La messe nous emmerde." (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 21 August 2024)
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