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PeteC

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« on: October 23, 2009, 08:54:PM »
For people who recite the Little Office - do you do so in Latin or English?

I've been thinking of putting Cardinal Bea's amplior edition (it has 3 more seasons for Lent, Passiontide and Easter + Marian feasts and a few other major feasts) up on Lulu.  Formatting the wretched document to display both Latin and English side by side, with all the nice capitals, etc. is a pain. It would be easier to put it in one language only (unless someone knows of a way I can merge a Latin text document with an English text one so they appear on facing pages?)
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Avus

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« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2009, 05:38:AM »
I use the LOBVM from Baronius to pray a hybrid. I started with Latin for the short responses and Antiphons and English for the longer prayers like the psalms. Then gradually working my way up to full Latin. Not there yet but getting closer all the time.
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« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2009, 12:47:PM »
I would include both Latin and English. Most people pray in Latin and have the English there as a base.

Personally, I only pray in English, because just two years of Latin just isn't enough! Embarrassed Angry
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« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2009, 03:33:PM »
I do English because I have only one semester of latin.
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« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2009, 08:30:PM »
I recite the LOBVM (Fr. Lasance) in English, but the Credo, Gloria, Pater and Ave in Latin.

The idea was to progressively move into Latin, which I didn't Sad
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« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2009, 07:16:AM »
I'm thinking of purchasing the Baronius edition in order to use the musical notation in my family's praing of the Liturgia Horarum, which scandalously has no music in it whatsoever. Could anyone tell me whether there is a complete set of neumes for the ordinary in Latin?
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« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2009, 05:16:AM »
I've been saying it Latin right from the start, cos the first one i had was that free one from officium parvum blogspot that was only in Latin. by the time i got the little blue one (from baronius i think) with side-by-side, i'd pretty much memorised enough of it to be able to glance at the Latin, start [raying, and then follow the english while i prayed in Latin.
next step is trying to sing it, as it has the gregorian in the back. would be good if i had access to soem recordings of it being sung as i'm pretty bad at leading and mostly pray by myself.
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« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2009, 02:59:PM »
Sometimes in Latin, other times in English. Sometimes I like to understand what I'm praying.
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