Praying in Latin?

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For those with young children I would highly recommed a video called Holy Baby

It is a lot like those “Baby Einstein” videos, except they go through all the Rosary prayers in seven languages

English ,French, Spanish, Latin, Vietnamese, German and Portuguese.

You can choose to just do a few languages, we do English, French and Latin.

And the kids do pick them up pretty well. It is my 2 year old favorite video (by far)
 
After Communion I always say the “Salva Christi” in Latin and Psalm 22 in English.

I am teaching myself the Hail Mary etc in Latin because our foreign priests always say them in Latin, but I am slow and stumbly:o
 
The kids also learned a prayer in pre-school that they really liked. I had the Latin profession at the Seminary translate it, and the kids have also learned in in Latin as well

Jesus, let me walk with you, I know my steps are small
Stay beside me, hold my hand, and never let me fall

Iesu, permitte ambulem iuxta te, scio gradus meos parvos esse,
Mane mecum, tene manum, nec umquam permitte cadam.
 
"Pope presents summary of catechism, urges memorizing Latin prayer"

“VATICAN CITY (CNS) - - Presenting the new ‘Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church,’ Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics around the world to memorize the most common Catholic prayers in Latin. Learning the prayers in Latin as well as in one’s own Language ‘will help Christian faithful of different languages pray together, especially when they gather for special circumstances,’ the pope [sic] said June 28 as he distributed the Italian version of the compendium, which included an appendix with the Latin texts of many traditional prayers, including the Sign of the Cross, the Gloria, the Hail Mary and Come, Holy Spirit. The pope [sic] said he hoped the compendium, a 200-page synthesis of the voluminous 1992 catechism, would give Catholics and non-Catholics easy access to the basic and essential tenets of the Catholic faith.”

*Catechismo Della Chiesa Catholica Compendio *
 
I am starting to memorize latin prayers. I know the Ave Maria, Doxologia minor, and the Pater Noster. I also memorized the Credo eventhough we dont use the nicean creed.
 
No, and it is nuts that I don’t!! I know Latin. I have a Latin New Testament, & I have the Vulgate on line bookmarked. So, why not pray in Latin?
I have bookmarked some of those sites. Thanks to those who posted them.
 
I can pray some of the Ave Maria and Pater Noster in Latin, and all of the Gloria Patri: “Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancti. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.”
I would love to learn all the basic prayers in Latin as our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI has recommended.
 
As a Latin translator and tutor (I translated the papal funeral and installation Masses for one of the networks), I usually pray in Latin. I like the sound of the language, and I enjoy the sense of unity with generations of Catholics before me.

I think that dioceses in the US, in the ‘spirit of Vatican II,’ should be ensuring that their parishioners can use Latin.
 
Thought I’d wake up an old thread. I pray the prayers in Latin I know. And at an English NO Mass I respond under my breath in Latin. Someone needs to! 😉
 
Two more sources for Latin prayer helps:
  • [post=1691949]*Compendium *of the Catechism of the Catholic Church[/post]
  • [post=1751341]Vatican Radio[/post]
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silverwings_88 said:
Do any of you pray the basic prayers in Latin??

As a way of dedication to the beautiful language of the church and to mark me as a distinct Catholic, I pray the rosary and the basic prayers in Latin as much as possible (the rosary is less quick in Latin, but I still seem to manage to speak quite quickly :o )

I was quite proud that I learned the Benedic, Domine before meals! :bounce:

Until I take formal Latin classes and attend a TLM, I bind myself to praying formal prayers in Latin and personal ones in any other language.

How about all of you? I’m curious!
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The only prayer I know in Latin is the Hail Mary, thanks to Schubert and Bach. I don’t know the Pater Noster. I would not be opposed to learning it, but my pronounciation would be dreadful, since I’ve never heard it spoken (except in the Godfather.)
All of my Latin has been learned through music. I am familiar with the Gloria, but I haven’t memorized it yet. And I know the Sanctus. I’m working on other songs that are prayers in Latin. But since I’ve never sung the Pater Noster, I couldn’t pray it in Latin.
 
My deacon, while I was in school in San Antonio, came up behind me the first time I went to the parish’s NOLM. He heard me reading through the latin prayers of the mass as I practiced under my breath.

He said, “Now God can understand you.”
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Windmill said:
My deacon, while I was in school in San Antonio, came up behind me the first time I went to the parish’s NOLM. He heard me reading through the latin prayers of the mass as I practiced under my breath.

He said, “Now God can understand you.”
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That’s probably the saddest and most misguided comment I’ve ever heard. As long as our prayers are sincere it doesn’t matter what language we use, or indeed whether we use any words at all. In fact, as Paul points out, many of our most sincere prayers are the ones that are too deep for words.

I say this as one who knows plenty of Latin - numerous prayers, plenty of Mass parts and 13 years worth of Catholic school choir hymns. Yes it sounds cool and it sounds Catholic - and at one time there was a point to using Latin when it WAS a common language that could unite people of many nations. No more.

To my mind it really is a little ridiculous to believe that praying in Latin matters in the slightest when you’re thinking in English or your vernacular language while you’re praying anyway. You think what we say matters more to God than how we think? You really think He even has a preference?
 
Windmill said:
My deacon, while I was in school in San Antonio, came up behind me the first time I went to the parish’s NOLM. He heard me reading through the latin prayers of the mass as I practiced under my breath.

He said, “Now God can understand you.”
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Heh.

Like the episode of *The West Wing *(“Two Cathedrals”) in which President Bartlett, alone for a moment in the National Cathedral, has a little monologue with God. He begins in the nave and in English, walks into the sanctuary and changes over to Latin, then exits the sanctuary and concludes in English. 😃

You gotta give it up for a president who knows the protocol and language for diplomacy.

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LilyM said:
That’s probably the saddest and most misguided comment I’ve ever heard. As long as our prayers are sincere it doesn’t matter what language we use, or indeed whether we use any words at all. In fact, as Paul points out, many of our most sincere prayers are the ones that are too deep for words.

I say this as one who knows plenty of Latin - numerous prayers, plenty of Mass parts and 13 years worth of Catholic school choir hymns. Yes it sounds cool and it sounds Catholic - and at one time there was a point to using Latin when it WAS a common language that could unite people of many nations. No more.

To my mind it really is a little ridiculous to believe that praying in Latin matters in the slightest when you’re thinking in English or your vernacular language while you’re praying anyway. You think what we say matters more to God than how we think? You really think He even has a preference?
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I am reminded of the XXII Session of the Council of Trent:

CANON IX.–If any one saith…that the mass ought to be celebrated in the vulgar tongue only…let him be anathema.

No point in Latin huh?
 
Resurrexit said:
I am reminded of the XXII Session of the Council of Trent:

CANON IX.–If any one saith…that the mass ought to be celebrated in the vulgar tongue only…let him be anathema.

No point in Latin huh?
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I went to a Mass celebrated by JP2 here in Australia in 1986. I don’t recall a word of Latin being used in it - of course I won’t say my memory is flawless, but I’d be very unlikely to forget if there was. Clearly he seemed to think there was little or no point.

There was every reason to use Latin at the time of Trent, it was the most common language of Europe - in all sorts of professions and areas of study as well as in the Church.

And if people want it today, like they want Communion on the tongue or ad orientem or what have you, then certainly I will support their right to do so.

The idea that God only understands Latin, as the priest said, is what realy sticks in my craw.
 
lily,

of course my deacon was joking. he’s at an anglican use parish where the primary masses are in english - albeit, Elizabethan English.

the smiley was placed after the comment to show that he was trying to make me laugh. he was not trying to teach me that god only speaks latin. LOL!
 
Sometimes I do my daily rosary in Latin. Even if I don’t, I often make the sign of the cross in Latin during the day.
 
LilyM said:
There was every reason to use Latin at the time of Trent, it was the most common language of Europe - in all sorts of professions and areas of study as well as in the Church.

The idea that God only understands Latin, as the priest said, is what realy sticks in my craw.
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As someone said, he was joking. Nobody has ever believed that God only understands Latin.

But remember, you can NOT say that there is no point in ever having Latin in the Mass, or it is no longer appropriate. The Canon I quoted is not something which only applies to the time, of Trent, it is an irrevocable Dogma.
 
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