Language of the Catholic Church and Western Civilization
As promised on the post for the original project: I have now collected the last year's-worth of TLM Gospels that I had been coloring by case throughout the year, and have now arranged them, starting naturally with the Sundays of Advent, in chronological order--and turned them into a PDF! Note: This first version of this... Continue Reading →
Every Christian needs to have this one memorized! Color-coded version to help with your translation here.
There is so much going on grammatically here--to say nothing of the Salvation History, narrative drama, or theology of course!
All those busy Latin nouns out there, doing their jobs, using their endings, are often hard to keep track of all at once. To help show the various jobs nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are doing in each phrase, clause, and sentence, I assign a color to each case to visually reinforce what the specific case endings are telling us.
Besides study of the Latin language in general, Sacred Music in Latin is one of my favorite hobbies. Due to digging around for a few years, I have found a lot of good sites for learning the music of all this Church Latin. I hope that you find some good stuff here that will help... Continue Reading →
More goodness from J. E. Lowe's "Church Latin for Beginners" that all Catholics and Church Latinists should know.
GOOD NEWS: You can pray well at the Latin Mass using a Missal with English translations (or that of any native language !), that lets you follow along easily with what the priest is saying and doing--and no Latin-fluency is needed! There's so much richness to Traditional Catholic worship. Of course, I have resource recommendations... Continue Reading →
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