Learning vs. studying Latin

The distinction between studying Latin and learning Latin is highlighted in this article by Mark J. Clark, of Christendom College. I'm very much in agreement with Clarkabout the necessity of learning Latin as the key to our Catholic heritage and as an exercise in a significantly different way of thinking.

Hat tip goes to Lisa Seeley, wife of Andrew Seeley of the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education.

Latin prayers

I can't remember if I've mentioned this before, but here is a great collection of Latin prayers.

For you John Paul II and Latin fans out there, Nancy Carpenter Brown links to this video.

Fr. Reginald Foster

Here is an article about Fr. Reginald Foster, priest of the Archdiocese and Vatican Latinist.  I think Sen. for Life Tim has heard him speak.

Sancta Missa

I may have linked to this before, but since we are talking about going to a Latin Mass, I thought this might be useful to prepare for it. Sancta Missa has everything you would want to know about the 1962 missal, including videos, chants, rubrics, and spirituality.

Habemus Papam

Here is the Wikipedia entry about the phrase, "Habemus Papam." It contains sound files of all the papal announcements since Pope Pius XII.

Latin Based entries in the New Catholic Dictionary

The 1910 New Catholic Dictionary was recently put online. There is a whole section concerning Latin phrases. It can be found here.

Veni, Sancte Spiritus

VENI, Sancte Spiritus,
reple tuorum corda fidelium,
et tui amoris in eis ignem accende.
V. Emitte Spiritum tuum et creabuntur;
R. Et renovabis faciem terrae.
Oremus:
DEUS, qui corda fidelium Sancti Spiritus illustratione docuisti. Da nobis in eodem Spiritu recta sapere, et de eius semper consolatione gaudere. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

An Easter Hymn

For those that didn't take their sheet home with them:

Song: O Filii et Filiae

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Men:
O filii et filiae,
Rex coelestis, Rex gloriae
morte surrexit hodie. Alleluia.

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Women:
Et Maria Magdalene,
et Iacobi, et Salome
Venerunt corpus ungere. Alleluia.

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Men:
In albis sedens angelus
praedixit mulieribus:
In Galilea est Dominus. Alleluia.

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Women:
Discipulis astantibus,
in medio stetit Christus,
dicens: Pax vobis omnibus. Alleluia.

All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

St. Michael Prayer in Latin

Sancte Michael archangele, defende nos in praelio, contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur: tuque, princeps militiae caelestis, satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo, divina virtute in infernum detrude. Amen.

Some cool Latin Resources

HT Greg Popcak. of HMS Weblog.

Great site for prayers: http://www.preces-latinae.org/index.htm

Pope’s Latinist: http://frcoulter.com/latin/

Church Latin: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09019a.htm

Now HERE is a resource I'm sure you won't want to do without!

For all you theology enthusiasts, Opera Omnia Sanctae Thomae de Aquino--IN LATIN!

And I mean omnia! Including works falsely attributed to him in the middle ages!

Audio Files of the Mass (missal of Pope Paul VI) in Latin

I'm going to regularly post some interesting Latin and Greek language, history and literature links I discover. Here's the first one: Audio Files of the Mass (missal of Pope Paul VI) in Latin.