[mware]

I have a whole lot of Latin to learn.

[AnAmericanMother]

Actually, if you just get yourself your own Latin/English missal, you can follow along and learn the Latin easily, by listening and repetition. That is the way little children learn to speak, by listening and repeating -- and there is far less material to learn in the Latin Mass than a little child hears every day (since all of us old folks' brain cells aren't as retentive as the little ones').

"Repetitio mater memoriae est."

Look at that phrase, and see how much Latin you already know and didn't know it!

Repetitio = repetition

Mater = mother (think: "maternal")

Memoriae = of memory, the "ae" on the end shows you that it is the possessive or 'genitive' form of the noun memoria = "memory"

Est = the Latin verb "to be", third person singular form = "is".

See how easy that is! "Repetition is the mother of memory!"