Attending my first TLM tomorrow - quick question

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There is confession before Mass, which I plan to also go to. Now, of course I do not know the Act of Contrition in Latin - I don’t assume this will be an issue, correct?
 
Don’t worry about it – you can do all of your confession in English. God bless! 🙂
 
I find it admirable that you are concerned but its not necessary that you know latin to go to confession at an EF Mass. just say your act of contrition in english. Thats all we ever do.
 
Lycorth said:
There is confession before Mass, which I plan to also go to. Now, of course I do not know the Act of Contrition in Latin - I don’t assume this will be an issue, correct?
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No need to list your sins in Latin either.
 
Listing my sins in Latin? I hope to be that proficient in Latin one day; we’ll see how well Rosetta Stone works.

I should have known better than to post too soon; naturally, something came up and I can’t go. Possibly, I’ll make it for a daily Mass this week. If so, I’ll happily make a follow-up post 🙂

Thanks for the advice!
 
Lycorth said:
Listing my sins in Latin? I hope to be that proficient in Latin one day; we’ll see how well Rosetta Stone works.!
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Rosetta Stone may help you with building up vocabulary but you will probably need something else for learning Latin grammar. Latin uses a completely different kind of grammar than English so you can’t just plug in Latin words for English ones.

You may want to start memorizing prayers in Latin. This link gives Latin and English for most traditional prayers: fisheaters.com/prayers.html

Start with easy ones like the “Sign of the Cross” and the “Glory Be” and work up to longer prayers. The “Hail Mary” is pretty easy too.
 
MarkThompson said:
Although if you could, then according to some you would receive “more efficacious graces” and have “more contrition in your soul,” so I dunno …
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It seems to me that you are misrepresenting the position of the poster to which you refer. He does not claim that reciting sins in Latin has these effects. He says that one might expect these results from the traditional rite of Confession. (And this is a reasonable enough position.) He was talking about what the priest says, not the language used by the penitent to list sins. It is clear that this poster expects penitents to list sins in the vernacular.
 
floresco said:
Rosetta Stone may help you with building up vocabulary but you will probably need something else for learning Latin grammar. Latin uses a completely different kind of grammar than English so you can’t just plug in Latin words for English ones.

You may want to start memorizing prayers in Latin. This link gives Latin and English for most traditional prayers: fisheaters.com/prayers.html

Start with easy ones like the “Sign of the Cross” and the “Glory Be” and work up to longer prayers. The “Hail Mary” is pretty easy too.
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Thanks - I’ll get right on that 🙂
 
Lycorth said:
There is confession before Mass, which I plan to also go to. Now, of course I do not know the Act of Contrition in Latin - I don’t assume this will be an issue, correct?
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You don’t need to know the Act of contrition in Latin. Confessions are usually all done in the vernacular. As for as the Mass, since it is your first time, don’t worry about trying to keep up with the priest. Sure, read the booklet (they usually have red booklets that you can use to follow along at the Mass) but most importantly, just take it all in. Pray and reflect. Is it going to be a sung Mass or a low Mass?
 
rapunzel77 said:
You don’t need to know the Act of contrition in Latin. Confessions are usually all done in the vernacular. As for as the Mass, since it is your first time, don’t worry about trying to keep up with the priest. Sure, read the booklet (they usually have red booklets that you can use to follow along at the Mass) but most importantly, just take it all in. Pray and reflect. Is it going to be a sung Mass or a low Mass?
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I am unsure; on their website only the Sunday Masses are specified as to which is Low Mass and which is High.

Mass began at 8:45, which makes me think it was a Low Mass.
 
MarkThompson said:
Although if you could, then according to some you would receive “more efficacious graces” and have “more contrition in your soul,” so I dunno …
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floresco said:
It seems to me that you are misrepresenting the position of the poster to which you refer. He does not claim that reciting sins in Latin has these effects. He says that one might expect these results from the traditional rite of Confession. (And this is a reasonable enough position.) He was talking about what the priest says, not the language used by the penitent to list sins. It is clear that this poster expects penitents to list sins in the vernacular.
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MarkThompson is indeed misrepresenting the poster’s claim. I just posted a link to Fr. Rippberger’s talk on the subject in the other thread which substantiates that poster’s claim at the 12:00 minute mark found here:

sensustraditionis.org/webaudio/Sermons/Disk8/Confession.mp3

The audio is ‘penanceware’ meaning you need to say a prayer or make a sacrifice for the intention of Fr. Rippberger in exchange for listening to the audio.
 
I think we have established that it is not necessary to say the Act of Contrition in Latin, but in case anybody wants see one in Latin, I found this:
DEUS meus, ex toto corde paenitet me omnium meorum peccatorum, eaque detestor, quia peccando, non solum poenas a Te iuste statutas promeritus sum, sed praesertim quia offendi Te, summum bonum, ac dignum qui super omnia diligaris. Ideo firmiter propono, adiuvante gratia Tua, de cetero me non peccaturum peccandique occasiones proximas fugiturum. Amen.
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In English this is:
O MY God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee and I detest all my sins because of Thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more and avoid the near occasions of sin. Amen.
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These come from the Treasury of Latin Prayers (Thesaurus Precum Latinarum) site: preces-latinae.org/index.htm
 
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