Audio of Latin prayer?

[pristine2]

Hi:

I hate to introduce myself by way of a request, but … I would like to be able to recite this prayer in Latin:

"Da, quaesumus Dominus, ut in hora mortis nostrae Sacramentis refecti et culpis omnibus expiati, in sinum misericordiae tuae laeti suscipi mereamur. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

I need to hear it spoken first, but cannot find any audio or video clips of this prayer.

The only one here in Hong Kong I know who can speak Latin is the priest, and I do not want to trouble him with the request.

Any suggestions would be warmly appreciated.

Thanks,
Richard

 

[Matthew_Holford]

Hi:

I hate to introduce myself by way of a request, but … I would like to be able to recite this prayer in Latin:

"Da, quaesumus Dominus, ut in hora mortis nostrae Sacramentis refecti et culpis omnibus expiati, in sinum misericordiae tuae laeti suscipi mereamur. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

I need to hear it spoken first, but cannot find any audio or video clips of this prayer.

The only one here in Hong Kong I know who can speak Latin is the priest, and I do not want to trouble him with the request.

Any suggestions would be warmly appreciated.

Thanks,
Richard

These two links to guides on the pronunciation of ecclesiastical Latin may help. Here’s the first and this is the other one.

 

[Lancer]

Not sure which prayer, devotion or liturgy that your prayer comes from…maybe this link will help…if not your prayer…it has plenty of audio in Latin so maybe…just maybe…you can “piecemeal” the pronunciation for the words of your prayer .

boston-catholic-journal.com/basic-catholic-prayers-in-latin-and-english-in-audio-format.htm

Pax Christi

P.S. another link that may be helpful
catholicipod.stblogs.com/2008/04/28/catholic-prayers-in-latin-and-english-mp3s-audio/

 

[pristine2]

Thanks for the helpful replies!

 

[MarkThompson]

Thanks for the helpful replies!

By the way, I’m not sure where you got that prayer, but the Latin is partly wrong. It should say “Da, quaesumus, Domine,” not “Dominus.” As you can see here, it appears to be originally a portion of the postcommunion prayer from the feast of St. Camillus de Lellis on July 18. (Note the word “Domine.”)

 

[pristine2]

By the way, I’m not sure where you got that prayer, but the Latin is partly wrong. It should say “Da, quaesumus, Domine,” not “Dominus.” As you can see here, it appears to be originally a portion of the postcommunion prayer from the feast of St. Camillus de Lellis on July 18. (Note the word “Domine.”)

Thanks for that link.

Different syntax, but is it really “wrong”? I don’t have enough Catholic education to know. I do know it’s written “Quaesumus Dominus” in the book I have. Should I worry about this? I certainly don’t want to cause offence. Should a lay person be reciting prayers like this in the first place?

I consulted an online Latin dictionary. According to it, “Quaesumus, Domine” means pretty much the same thing as “Quaesumus Dominus”. One is something like “We beseech thee O lord”, and the other “Lord, we beseech thee”.

Richard

 

[Laudate_Dominum]

It’s more about the context. Domine is in the vocative case (person(s) being spoken to) and Dominus is in the nominative case (subject of a sentence).

 

[MarkThompson]

Thanks for that link.

Different syntax, but is it really “wrong”? I don’t have enough Catholic education to know. I do know it’s written “Quaesumus Dominus” in the book I have. Should I worry about this? I certainly don’t want to cause offence. Should a lay person be reciting prayers like this in the first place?

I consulted an online Latin dictionary. According to it, “Quaesumus, Domine” means pretty much the same thing as “Quaesumus Dominus”. One is something like “We beseech thee O lord”, and the other “Lord, we beseech thee”.

Richard

The poster above is right. The ending -us would be used when that noun is the grammatical subject of the sentence (nominative case). The ending changes to -e when you are addressing somebody directly (vocative case) – this is why, in Shakespeare, Caesar addresses Brutus saying, “Et tu, Brute?” “Et tu, Brutus” would have been wrong, although there is no good way to translate the error into English that would carry through a sense of how it is wrong. From an online translator, it would still look “right.”

Thus, although “quaesumus, Dominus” might well be understandable, this is only in the same sense that “Me is going to the store” or “Tell my wife that I love she” would be understandable. Definitely incorrect as a matter of grammar.

Out of curiosity, what is that book you got this from?

 

[pristine2]

The poster above is right. The ending -us would be used when that noun is the grammatical subject of the sentence (nominative case).
Out of curiosity, what is that book you got this from?

Thanks.

The book is “Catholic Family Prayers (in English and Latin)” Catholic University Press, Washington, 1960.

The same usage is found here: thesacredheart.com/latpray.htm#death

 

[TrueLight]

Hi:

I hate to introduce myself by way of a request, but … I would like to be able to recite this prayer in Latin:

"Da, quaesumus Dominus, ut in hora mortis nostrae Sacramentis refecti et culpis omnibus expiati, in sinum misericordiae tuae laeti suscipi mereamur. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

I need to hear it spoken first, but cannot find any audio or video clips of this prayer.

The only one here in Hong Kong I know who can speak Latin is the priest, and I do not want to trouble him with the request.

Any suggestions would be warmly appreciated.

Thanks,
Richard

I don’t know if you have an iPhone or Android, but I found this prayer in the iPieta application. It’s an awesome App.

Unfortunately, it is copyrighted, so I can’t just send the audio to you, but it’s there with a lot of other prayers, bible, traditional calendar and much more… The App costs $2.99.