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To: B Knotts

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


8 posted on 10/24/2005 6:36:14 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (Blessed Pius IX, pray for us!)
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To: Pyro7480; B Knotts; NYer; Salvation

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

Cheap, unless there's a better method?


10 posted on 10/24/2005 6:55:51 AM PDT by SaltyJoe (A mother's sorrowful heart and personal sacrifice redeems her lost child's soul.)
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To: Pyro7480; B Knotts
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.)

16 posted on 10/24/2005 7:08:52 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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