I prefer to pray in Latin

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I’d love to know the responsae in Latin. I once had the entire Rosary memorized in Latin.
 
Short prayers yes because easy to memorize. Longer ones would have to read from a prayer book.
 
Latin is the same language spoken by Nero and used to worship Jupiter and the Emperor.

(yes, for the dense among you, that’s satirical and sarcastic)
 
That may be the case; but: The Church made Latin it’s own, so it’s more than kosher to speak Latin as a Catholic.
 
Once you start with prayers in Latin, you rapidly progress toward complaining about poor translations into English … from Greek and Latin and Hebrew.
 
Just a quick note. Hebrew is not derived from Aramaic. They are both sister languages derived from a language called Proto-Canaanite, which itself is derived from Proto-Semitic, which in turn is derived from a mega-language known as Proto-Afro-Asiatic. I know it’s off topic, but the linguistic snob in me could not let that go. It’s a fault I’m working on 😇
 
You know…as as thought…,poetry really strikes deep when we have it said in our own language . I can get what you are saying because our own Spanish poets and some of their phrases we never forget and can still move us many years later.
When you say things like this you said ,one can almost sense that you have made Latin your own. And I mean it as something good and it makes a difference when one who loves his/her " own" language explains it.
 
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Spanish is a lot like Latin in that there are no silent letters except “h” and pronunciations are straightforward. Easy on the ears too. 🙂

But I still don’t understand why “v” is pronounced like “b”. 🙂
 
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