Two or three weeks ago, I had the privilege of staying with Fr (Dr) Cipolla at his splendid church in Norwalk in Connecticut (you've read a lot of his sermons on Rorate). What congregations! What liturgy! What music! What an MC and what a Director of Music! What hospitality! What a priest (and a cook)! And, as well as Father, I was privileged to get to know the celebrated Mgr Ignacio Barreiro ... what a long-standing champion of Life and of Tradition.
And what a Sacristy! And, just above the Vesting Board, what a notice! It gave instructions to priests celebrating in that church; and the two most important rules (this may not be verbatim) were:
In this Church, the First Eucharistic Prayer, the Roman Canon, is always used.
In this Church, Mass is always celebrated ad Orientem.
What an example to us all!
VIVANT CONNECTICUTIENSES!!
EXEMPLO CONNECTICUTIENSI OMNES VIVAMUS!!!
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Don't tell his Humbleness!
Father, Glad you had a good time. I venture (with trepidation) to suggest "(civitas) coniuncta scissaque" as a rendering of Connecticut.
Connecticut: From some Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England (perhaps Mahican), meaning "at the long tidal river", after the Connecticut River. The name reflects Proto-Eastern-Algonquian *kwən-, "long"; *-əhtəkw, "tidal river"; and *-ənk, the locative suffix.
Can anything good come out of Connecticut?
What about Longoflumine? Respublica Longofluminensis?
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