Cardinals call on Pope to save Latin from last rites

Times OnLine ^ | October 24, 2005 | Martin Penner

[NYer]

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates solemn mass in St Peter's Square 23 October 2005, for the canonization of five Blesseds (Polish Archbishop Jozef Bilczewski and compatriot priest Zygmunt Gorazdowski, Italians priest Gaetano Catanoso and father Felice da Nicosia, Chilean priest Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga ) to mark the end of the Synod of Bishops, the first of his pontificate. In a "message to the people of God" marking the end of a three-week gathering of 250 bishops and cardinals at the Vatican, the bishops called on political leaders to enact laws protecting marriage and the family, outlawing abortion and euthanasia

[NYer]

[TradicalRC]

It is expected to appeal to the Pope, who in June invited Catholics to pray in Latin whenever possible, emphasising its universal dimension. “Latin makes it easier for Christians from different countries to pray together, especially when they meet for special occasions,” he said .

Do you know of any site that has the prayers in Latin with an accompanying phonetic text for proper pronunciation?

[Desdemona]

Do you know of any site that has the prayers in Latin with an accompanying phonetic text for proper pronunciation?

Which proper pronunciation? There's church Latin, classical Latin and whatever the music director thinks is correct. No two are the same.

[Pyro7480]

Here's a pronunciation guide from an excellent site: The Pronunciation of Latin

[B Knotts]

Every Catholic needs to bookmark this:

Thesaurus Precum Latinarum

[B Knotts]

Oops...didn't notice your link goes to the same site. Oh, well...

[Pyro7480]

It's ok. We might get more people to see it in the process.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

That is such a good site. I discovered it a long time ago, and go there first when looking for Latin prayers...They have a pdf of the Rosary which prints off as a booklet, which I am printing off this morning so I can carry it with me in my purse.

[SaltyJoe]

http://store.yahoo.com/rosettastone/latin.html

Cheap, unless there's a better method?

[Pyro7480]

Is it classical or ecclesiastical Latin?

[magisterium]

Wow! (Said hoarsely, like the three guys sampling the moonshine in "The Great Escape) ;-)

[B Knotts]

Don't run Windows, though.

[SaltyJoe]

Idunno. I think it's very basic, enough to get the feet wet I suppose.

[AnAmericanMother]

Great site! I've had it bookmarked since before they changed addresses!

I will caution you that the translations are not literal. Many times, the translation is simply a rhymed English paraphrase commonly used as a hymn or anthem.

The best way to get absolutely literal translations of antiphons, prayers, anthems, etc. is to get a used copy of Chants of the Church edited by Msgr. Charles E. Spence (1953, Toledo: Gregorian Institute of America). It's a selection of material from the Liber Usualis (a prohibitively expensive tome in reprint), and it has an absolutely literal and correct interlinear translation. It ALSO has a wonderful guide to pronunciation (in the Italianate/ecclesiastical style) in the front. If you Google the title and author's name, you should be able to turn up a dirt cheap copy (I got mine for 9 bucks.)

[Pyro7480]

If you want a "hard copy" of something like that website, a good book is The Raccolta. All of the prayers are in English in the book, but many of them also have the Latin version following. It's a neat book.

[Pyro7480]

See my post #17 as well.

[AnAmericanMother]

Thanks and bookmarked!

Isn't that also the book where we can find out how many years off Purgatory we used to get?

[pgkdan]

Bump for looking when I'm home.