Do you pray in Latin

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The Our Father.
Sometimes the Anima Christi
 
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I’m working on learning some. I am having a difficult time with it though
 
Only the Sanctus and Agnus Dei when they’re prayed in Latin during mass.
 
i studied latin in HS

but that was a long time ago…

now i am down to just the “sign of the cross” in latin… 😦
 
I pray the standard prayers in Latin like the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be, and stuff like that.
 
Yes, I pray Lauds and Vespers in Latin daily (the other hours in French if using the Monastic Breviary, or in Latin if using the Liturgy of the Hours).
 
Yes every day. It’s the language of the Latin rite and an indispensable part of our heritage of Faith. It connects me to the saints who sanctified the language by their prayers.
 
Frequently.

Pater Noster
Ave Maria
Gloria Patri
Symbolum Apostolorum
Salve Regina
Oratio ad Sanctum Michael
Angele Dei
Anima Christi
Mass prayers (Sanctus, Agnus Dei) (when in union with the rest of the congregation)
probably others and ejaculations without names
Liturgia Horarum when I am able
(especially the Nunc Dimittis and its antiphon)
 
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No, but sometimes I will mutter something like “judica me, Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta” under my breath.
 
I pray the Rosary in Latin on Sunday’s and Holy days. Every Friday I pray the Litany of the Sacred Heart in Latin (Divine Mercy chaplet during Lent). Whenever I am beset by evil or temptation, I pray the Latin invocation on my St Benedict medal: crux sacra sit mihi lux, non draco sit mihi dux.
 
Usually the prayers I know better. Not to discourage anyone from saying the ones you don’t or else how would one learn them?
 
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I pray the rosary in Latin and the Anima Christi after communion.
 
Rarely. There are some prayers which have a deeper resonance when prayed in Latin (e.g. the Anima Christi), however I’m comfortable praying in English. Vernacular prayers have always been used by the lay faithful as evidenced by various personal prayer books.
I’ve known people who pray in Latin and only do so because they think it is more traditional but they haven’t a clue as to what they are saying. When there are good vernacular translations available I would, personally, use them.
I prefer to pray using ‘Sacral English’, it’s my preference. It’s down to whatever works for the individual.
 
Agnus Dei… Sanctus… That’s about it, on the off chance they’re sung in Latin at the church I go to. (I seem to remember a few occasions where they did that, not a Latin Mass though.)
 
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Yes, I do.

Pater, Ave Maria, Salve Regina, part of the Angelus, most of the latin prayers an answers in the Tridentine Mass.

I still have to work on both Creeds (lazyness is holding me back since I pray these in my native language more often)
 
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