The Sacred languages of the Cross-- Latin, Greek, and Hebrew (in addition to the late Aramaic derivative in Syriac)-- are falling into oblivion while giving way to the modern languages as the media of liturgical worship. 

This is dangerous trend to some extent because the modern vernacular carries with them certain connotations and associations that risk profaning the sacred rites and the intentional purity of our worship as handed down from one generation to the next.  Case in point, simply compare the pop Christian song "Jesus Take the Wheel" with the plainchant of Dies Irae.  Which inspires more reverence and introspection?  [If you say, it's all "subjective" and doesn't matter then you've already lost the plot.  That's probably worse than preferring Betty-Jean by objective rational criteria (whatever that would entail).]

This section tries to revive that interest in traditional liturgical languages, especially Latin (but also the others), not so much for academic reasons as that might puff up our self-regard above others but to inspire ordinary Christians to understand and preserve a far richer linguistic medium of prayer.  Perhaps I am alone, but I would like to pray in the same words as the first generation of martyrs who gave everything to Christ and vindicated the truth of the Gospel that my ancestors later received, took for granted, and often failed to live up to.  This heroism from the time of Nero to Galerius is infrequently demonstrated in the course of Church History with rare exceptions (including St. Maxmilian Kolbe and others).  Should we not model ourselves on their approach to piety?

Here, I pull from the Missal, the Breviary, Chants and Hymns, and traditional prayers, to meditate upon the language itself and how it can be a source of religious insight, a focus of meditation and spiritual growth that challenges us to grow into the Faith as traditionally practiced rather than accommodate it uncritically to the lazy demands of a consumer of "religious content."  Accessibility could be expedient (indeed, Peter preached in Italic Latin and often in Greek, not Christ's Aramaic), but it can also be an invitation to laziness in prayer.