Monks and Latin in the U.S

[PedroArtist]

I would like to know if in the United States there are monastic orders that speak Latin or what is the daily language. I have also heard of an order that spoke only Russian. Does any one know the statistics of languages spoken in the various orders?
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Pedro

 

[Cloisters]

I would like to know if in the United States there are monastic orders that speak Latin or what is the daily language. I have also heard of an order that spoke only Russian. Does any one know the statistics of languages spoken in the various orders?
This is my first post. I was not sure where it should be posted. If there is a better place, please let me know.
Thanks
Pedro

I know in the US, there are monasteries who speak English, Spanish, and a couple have the Ukranian Rite for worship and prayers, but they speak English.

If a monastery spoke only Russian, and they were located in the US, I dare say they had better be learning some English, or they will not get vocations.

Then there are the few who have the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite (EFLR)–the Traditional Latin Mass–but I can count those on one hand (literally). They don’t speak Latin outside of Mass and Devotions, but speak English.

That being said, are you actually searching for a community with the EFLR?

HTH.

Blessings,
Cloisters

 

[3Sanctus]

I don’t know of any that use anything but the vernacular in daily life (whether that would be English, Spanish, what have you would depend on their composition and that of the communities from which they draw vocations - that I know of none in the United States that speak anything other than English) - however, there are those that use the EF of the Mass and the Latin form of the Horarium.

Examples of such communities include Sister of Mary Mother of the Church and Clear Creek Monastery. Additionally, the Carthusians use Latin for their daily prayers and celebrate their own Carthusian Mass, which is in Latin and developed from the Grenoble Rite in medieval France - itself a development of the Lyon Rite.

Personally, I find the Carthusians to be the most interesting of the Latin-using orders I know - they have a wonderful spiritual tradition!