Recently I realized that there are a lot of terms we use in Church that sounds familiar to me but I have no idea what they mean. So I'd like to start a thread where we can share some terms, common or not so common, English or Latin, just whatever we can share to help each other widen our vocabulary. I'll start...

ENCYCLICAL- A papal document treating of matters related to the general welfare of the Church, sent by the Pope to the bishops. Used especially in modern times to express the mind of the Pope to the people. Although of themselves not infallible documents, encyclicals may (and generally do) contain pronouncements on faith and morals that are de facto infallible because they express the ordinary teaching of the Church. In any case, the faithful are to give the papal encyclicals their interior assent and external respect as statements of the Vicar of Christ.

(got this definition from therealpresence.org)

The whole of a previous post was:

Sancta Sanctorum - Holy of Holies.

What does this mean?  It is not grammatical Latin.  Was Sanctum Sanctorum meant? 

Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctum_sanctorum. 

God bless,


NoelFitz.
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Bhokuto

I looked up the URLs you gave. 

I am still unclear. 

The Italian seems to be “Il Santo dei Santi”. 

Are you saying “Sancta” is Italian? 

Was “Sancta Sanctorum” intended to be a mixture of Italian and Latin? 

God bless,


NoelFitz.
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In necessariis, unitas; in dubiis, libertas; in omnibus, caritas.
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