Latin

  • Thread starter Thread starter srfnolen
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
S

srfnolen

Guest
If I were to study Latin just enough to participate in an all Latin mass, what resources, books, etc should I use?
 
Seems like any 1962 Latin-vernacular handmissal should suffice if that’s all you’re looking for.
 
Depends on what you mean by participate. You can fully participate without studying Latin at all. Just go to Latin Mass for 4-6 weeks to get used to it and you’ll be set to go. You’ll already be familiar with much of what is happening. This is a good resource - leafletonline.com/Latin-English-Tridentine-Mass-Missal/productinfo/19623/ - to help you. If you really want to understand Church Latin to get even more out of it, then I’d recommend A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin by Collins. Indispensable. You can get it at Amazon, just make sure you pick up an answer key too!
 
Good luck. 🙂

I took Latin all four years of high school and…while it wasn’t a complete waste of time…I wouldn’t understand the first word in a Latin Mass. 😉
 
on_the_hill said:
Good luck. 🙂

I took Latin all four years of high school and…while it wasn’t a complete waste of time…I wouldn’t understand the first word in a Latin Mass. 😉
Click to expand...
The word “in”?

Wouldn’t or don’t want to? 🙂
 
on_the_hill said:
Good luck. 🙂

I took Latin all four years of high school and…while it wasn’t a complete waste of time…I wouldn’t understand the first word in a Latin Mass. 😉
Click to expand...
Oh come on, I took no Latin in high school and my Church’s liturgical language is Aramaic/Syriac, yet “Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Santi” is pretty obvious!
 
Even if you are used to a Classical Latin pronunciation instead of an Ecclesiastical Latin one, Mass isn’t too difficult to make out. What you can make out (in full on speech), you’ll pretty much get. It just is faster than what you’re used to, and the sentence structure can be complicated.

The readings are not hard. (And if you’re doing Latin and you’re not studying up on the Vulgate, you are missing all kinds of Latin fun and beauty.)

The difficult bit is losing track of where you are, because most Ordinary Form Masses are just different enough in “staging” that a newbie at an Extraordinary Form Mass feels lost.

So yeah, missals help when it’s faster and twistier than you’re used to hearing Latin spoken, and those guides to where the priest’s back is positioned also help.
 
SyroMalankara said:
Oh come on, I took no Latin in high school and my Church’s liturgical language is Aramaic/Syriac, yet “Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Santi” is pretty obvious!
Click to expand...
Well…o.k. I exaggerated. Just a little. 😉
Mintaka said:
Even if you are used to a Classical Latin pronunciation instead of an Ecclesiastical Latin one,
Click to expand...
Whenever there are Latin passages, I **always **steadfastly stick to the Classical pronunciations and eschew the Ecclesiastical. Call me ultra-traditionalist, but the Classical came first. 😃
 
PietroPaolo said:
Depends on what you mean by participate. You can fully participate without studying Latin at all. Just go to Latin Mass for 4-6 weeks to get used to it and you’ll be set to go. You’ll already be familiar with much of what is happening. This is a good resource - leafletonline.com/Latin-English-Tridentine-Mass-Missal/productinfo/19623/ - to help you. If you really want to understand Church Latin to get even more out of it, then I’d recommend A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin by Collins. Indispensable. You can get it at Amazon, just make sure you pick up an answer key too!
Click to expand...
Great help! Thank you.
 
Perhaps I should specify what I need. I’m in the choir and at times we sing Latin chants and songs I’m unsure of how to pronounce the lyrics. In a case like that, what should I have at the ready to assist me?

Thanks again,
srfnolen
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top