Praying the Rosary in Latin

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I’m not sure I buy the dead language argument.

Just because it isn’t a national language or popular, doesn’t mean it’s dead.

Something that caught my eye recently, was a sign in front of a Baptist Church near where I work.

Highlands Latin School.
thelatinschool.org/

Strange. A traditional Christian school, which teaches the Apostles Creed, and is located on the property of a Baptist Church. Well, strange for around these parts anyhow.
 
So is there a site that has audio clips of these prayers in Latin? That way, I can hear how they sound while I read the Latin in the site posted upthread.

TIA! 😃
 
Vatican Radio used to have it, but apparently no more (that is: not archived/“on demand” – They still have it on the live schedule).

Google for “audio latin rosary” – Here is such a site.

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Tee for President! 👍 Thank you so much; how nice that the audio includes slowed-down and regular-speed versions. This is gonna be fun. 😃
 
I would think praying in Latin would be beneficial simply because it would help the person learn Latin- a language that is vital if a person really wants to go deep into Catholic history.

I would also think that Latin would help a person better grasp the aesthetics of language. It would also aid in a person’s active participation at Mass.

Finally, given the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis, I would think that the use of Latin in private prayer would help orient a person’s thoughts in such a way that they would intellectually grow nearer to the Fathers.
The best post of the thread so far. Helps develop a non-wimpy mindset too. 👍
 
Latin was the official language of the Church for the simple reason that it was the most universal language of the then know world.
Still is, isn’t it?

I don’t think the Esperanto rosary caught on as well. 🙂
 
is there any downloadable latin mp3 format prayer? will somebody please help me… I’m in great need…
 
Tee for President! 👍 Thank you so much; how nice that the audio includes slowed-down and regular-speed versions. This is gonna be fun. 😃
Since I got a portable broadband device, I am able to listen to Vatican Radio at work. I get to hear the Rosary in Latin in between 1PM and 1:30PM every day, provided that a Papal event doesn’t pre-empt it (meaning a re-broadcast of it because it is about 7:PM-7:PM Rome time, while mine is Texas time).

What puts me to shame is that sometimes, they will have little boy leading the Rosary in Latin. If he can do it, I need to learn how to do it. At the end of the Rosary, the priest imparts a blessing.

By the way, I do not think that it is live. Our diocesan radio station has the Rosary at 10PM every weeknight and believe me, it is not live. Nor is our Angelus broadcast. It is taped. I know because I will hear the bishop leading the Angelus when I know that he is either at the USCCB meeting or on another out-of-town trip.
 
Please people.😦

This thread began so beautifully and then, like most threads on CAF, egos stepped in.

I never thought of praying my Rosary in Latin but that is something I will now try to do.

I might need to print out the prayers and read them for awhile but because I watch the Daily Mass on EWTN every day I do have the Pater Nostra down pat. I have never forgotten my Catholic grade school Latin lessons so I am pretty good on pronunciation but the links to the CD, etc. will certainly be helpful.

Now, can we get some civility back in this thread.🤷
 
At the Latin Mass chapel I went to, I would pray the Rosary in Latin. I found the texts in an issue of the LATIN MASS Magazine. Had them copied for everyone’s use.

Sure, there were some complaints; but the FSSP priests who came to say Mass twice a month (they don’t come now-really bummed about that 😦 ) were very happy that we were doing it!

I also have a tape and CD set of John Paul II saying the Rosary in Latin.

When it’s said in Latin, you have to ‘take your time’ in saying it…the thing I can’t stand about group recitations is when it’s said ‘in a rush’ ! :mad:
 
Pro Multis Media has a great DVD of the Traditional Latin Rosary with a “visual feast of Traditional Catholic art”. There are subtitles so you can read along. It’s great! They also have a CD.

www.promultismedia.com
 
I my self have been trying to learn my prayers in Latin as well. I can’t quite explain the appeal… I just have a natural inclination to want to pray in Latin I guess :).

Right now I can of course Cross my self – I learned that from television 😛 – and pretty much have the Apostle’s Creed nailed. Next up, Pater Noster!
 
At the Latin Mass chapel I went to, I would pray the Rosary in Latin. I found the texts in an issue of the LATIN MASS Magazine. Had them copied for everyone’s use.

Sure, there were some complaints; but the FSSP priests who came to say Mass twice a month (they don’t come now-really bummed about that 😦 ) were very happy that we were doing it!

I also have a tape and CD set of John Paul II saying the Rosary in Latin.

When it’s said in Latin, you have to ‘take your time’ in saying it…the thing I can’t stand about group recitations is when it’s said ‘in a rush’ ! :mad:
Where did you get the CDs? Do they include the luminous mysteries?

You can hear him here:
youtube.com/watch?v=MNpXs3EwX54
but the user only uploaded the Joyful and Sorrowful. Zenit.org has an old article saying the bookstore at the Vatican has it but I do not see it anywhere…

-ajciv
 
One can declare that praying in Latin is more efficacious than in another language by the importance placed upon it by the Church Herself in Her documents and by simple deduction.

By simple deduction, I mean what I posted about previously. The Church has established that Latin is Her official language. Who and What is the Church? The Bride of Christ. When the Church declares, Heaven also declares (see Matt. XVI). The authority to “bind and loose” is not one taken lightly. What is bound on earth is bound also in Heaven. Therefore, by following in step with the Church’s official declarations; whether they be disciplinary or doctrinal ie. a celibate priesthood, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, or Latin as Her official language, we celebrate these with the full Body of Christ. The Church Militant on earth who embraces these declarations, the Church Triumphant who celebrates them in heaven (Rom. CH. 8).

A few of the more prominent Vatican documents reveal that the Church has officially put into writing Her desire for Latin to be promoted, learned, and prayed. Pope Benedict XVI has urged the faithful to know their basic prayers in Latin (Sacramentum Caritatis, 62), Pope John XXIII promoted the study of Latin Veterum Spientia, in Sacrosanctum Concilium (SC 36. 1. Particular law remaining in force, the use of the Latin language is to be preserved in the Latin rites.) The common prayers during Mass are officially prescribed by the Vatican to be preserved in Latin (although today we still do not see this fulfilled).

Saint Augustine says of praying to our Lord, “He prays for us, he prays in us, and he is prayed to by us. He prays for us as our priest; he prays in us as our head; and he is prayed to by us as our God. Let us therefore recognize our voices in him and his voices in us” (Enarratio in Psalmum, 85: CCL 39, 1176).

By praying the Rosary in Latin we can unite ourselves with all of the Church’s declarations and affections towards this special language. If Christ, Who dwells intimately within the Church, and the Church, with Christ as the Head, holds dear this particular language, then it can only be more efficacious, while keeping this in mind, to pray in the intimate language of prayer bound by our Church between Heaven and Earth.

When a prayer is prayed in Latin with the devotion of realizing that it is done in a spirit of brotherhood with the Church Militant on earth as well as the Church Triumphant in Heaven. A devotion of brotherly love among Catholics throughout the Universal Church, a love for the Church which Christ established, a love for God’s Created Heaven and Earth where Latin is officially bound, a prayer done with this kind of devotion can only bring greater graces.

God bless, LC
Absolutely you are correct - Latin is the ‘high way.’ Yet for some, it is probably not what they are called to. This is IMHO analogous to what Dr. Miravalle said about the ministerial priesthood ("Don’t come back in 10 years and told me you became a priest because it was the highest calling! It has to be what YOU are called to…)

Incidentally, a priest of my acquaintance, who happens to be the Prior of the only community of Camaldolese Hermits of Monte Corona on this continent, told me he considered the study of Latin the most important next to theology. And no, they are not doing everything in Latin there, so it is not mere bias on his part :cool: .

That being said, I am somewhat lazy, and my Latin is nowhere near where it should be.

Orate pro me et oremus pro invicem!

-ajciv
 
Read, See, and Hear How to Pray and Chant the Rosary in Latin
  1. For any of you who would like to learn how to pray the Rosary in Latin, as well as chant the Rosary in Latin, I would strongly recommend the following website, which appears not to have been mentioned so far:
  1. On this website, you’ll find (a) the texts for all the prayers, which should help with memorization, and also (b) videos with audio, which should help with pronunciation.
What’s especially nice about this site is that it’s apparently put together by a layman who, like some of us here, became interested in praying his Catholic prayers in the official language of the Church, but who couldn’t find the type of resource it appears some of us are looking for. He’s done a very nice job.

Anyway, I hope that helps for those who are interested.

Peace,
Timothy
 
I love praying in Latin. I have memorized all the prayers of the rosary in Latin except for the Hail Holy Queen. But, now I have been saying it in Spanish instead.
 
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