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AlanFromWichita
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You folks sure know how to make a creep like me feel good.
Alan
Alan
…and well deserved! Known you for a while now Alan…you’re no creep for absolutely sure!..in fact the complete and total opposite of such and then some more:wave:You folks sure know how to make a creep like me feel good.
Alan
Evidently it is more often the rule than the exception. :ehh:Alan from W wanted to have this thread removed?
When did an apparent waste of time become a rule around here?
As pointed out, one can pray the Ave Maria in Latin - one of the most beautiful prayers and hymns - espeically Schubert’s version.
I prefer the Latin to the English.
Ave Maria
Gratia plena
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
et benedicts frucutus ventris tui, Iesus
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus
nunc et en hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
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Not to brag, but I can say it in Spanish, too-
Dios te salve, Maria
Tu eres llena de gracia,
El Señor es contigo
Bendita tu eres entre toas las mujeres
y bendito es el fruto de tu vientre, Jesus
Santa Maria, Madre de Dios
Ora por nosotros pecadores, ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte. Amen.
I would like to learn the Ave Maria in Italian and Polish.
I hear you on that! Once in a while I play a wedding or funeral where they hire some wonderful singers to do this piece, and I am honored to accompany on piano or organ. The last time this lady I’d never met had such a wonderful smile while she sang, and she didn’t bother with getting near a microphone. :crying:When hearing the Ave Maria sung in Latin, I cannot stop the silent tears … it is overwhelmingly beautiful.
whatever, Daniel. I believe that story is a prefigure of Mary who through her fiat crushes the head of the enemy under her heel. Yes, I know all about the he vs she controversy in the relevant verse in Genesis, spare us the details, the point is that through the sin of Eve the serpent prevailed and through the obedience of Mary the enemy is defeated.
Alan, I feel your pain, I avoid public recitations of the rosary for that reason (not amongst by itself, but the tendency to fit 5 decades into 7 minutes or less that prevails here. especially in Spanish.) Also, since the basic prayers were re-written somewhere along with other revisions, and children are being taught the dumbed-down versions, nobody is sayng the same prayers any more, but that’s okay, it is the same way at Lourdes or any international venue like WYD. I lead rosaries at wakes when no one else is available (it’s not my job, man) and use a scriptural rosary guide that slows things down a bit.
I have the same problem. I have vague recollections of my Mass books in English on one page and Latin on the facing page, and even of saying some of it in Latin, but I don’t remember the priests facing away from us.so then if someone could help me with pronunciation of latin words, or show me where I could learn ,that would be great! to put it bluntly my latin stinks!!! but in my defense I’m post Vat2 so we never used latin in catholic school, not even during benediction. I would be so very grateful if I could pray the Hail Mary in Latin. Any help!!!
Hi MaryJ…I could not resist it having been educated by nuns pre V2 who insisted I learn Latin…it is not your Latin which stinks, but Latin per se!so then if someone could help me with pronunciation of latin words, or show me where I could learn ,that would be great! to put it bluntly my latin stinks!!! but in my defense I’m post Vat2 so we never used latin in catholic school, not even during benediction. I would be so very grateful if I could pray the Hail Mary in Latin. Any help!!!