This Week’s Newsletter

Posted by The Treasurer, on April 9th, 2017

Here is this Week’s Newsletter: St Stephen’s News XXVIII No 13

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• The Reverend Peter Hawkins

  April 9, 2017 at 11:54 AM

  Languga moves, so what I would call a “coffre” here in France,in the USA is known as a “hood” and in the UK as a “bonnet”. Use of the word “gay” must now be sensitive to it’s newly acquired meanings. That does not mean that “Om shanti Om” in Sanskrit has lost it’s significance. In the case of the latter Sanskrit is no longer spoken, but is used when chanting from the Vedas and Upanishads. The Jewish and Christianb Tradition is unusually anxious “that what is read and sung in church in the English Tongue to the end that the Congregation may be thereby edified”. In the parish churches of England that I served it was quite usual to use Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and English in the 17th and 20th Century forms. In India I would use Bengali and Hindi. Here in Brittany we use modern French and Breizenhog as well as the ancient languages of Hebrew, Greek and Latin. By contrast in the Mosques and Madrassahs of Islam across the world, the language ritually used is Koraysh Arabic of the 7th Century, which today is not understood by anyone except some scholars. In the Qu’ran the Koraysh Arabic usuage includes many foreign words. Nostalgia can obscure understanding as when the Koraysh Arab word for White Grapes becomes Virgins isnpiring some ignorant striving men to attack others in the belief that in the event of their death, a reward of virgins awaits, which in fact would seem to be white grapes!