Could someone please render

[Catholicdad]

"O Christian soul" in Latin, as in:

Remember O Christian soul, today you (I have at present "Memento, tuum esse hodie" which I believe means simply translated "Remember, you have this day . . .").

I know soul is anima, but I don't really know Latin.  I also presume that "Remember, O Christian Soul" is a complex rendering of "Memento, tuum esse hodie" but I'm looking for something with more "bite."

Thanks - Dad

[GrumpyTroll]

If I understand correctly, the following should satisfy your request: “Memento, O Christiana anima, tuum esse hodie …”

[Catholicdad]

If I understand correctly, the following should satisfy your request: “Memento, O Christiana anima, tuum esse hodie …”

Gracias homo clemente.*

 - Dad

* I hope I didn't just insult you.

[AgnusDei1989]

Well, if you have a C, you're talking Spanish, lol... it would be gratias... but otherwise, it's grammatical enough!

[Catholicdad]

Well, if you have a C, you're talking Spanish, lol... it would be gratias... but otherwise, it's grammatical enough!

Romans had C--Latin doesn't?  Klemente?

I was going for "thank you kind sir" (see why I needed help).

 - Dad

Edit:  Oh, I see, Gratias, not Gracias. 

[jovan66102]

Romans had C--Latin doesn't?  Klemente?

 

They had the letter but not, according to the classicists, the sound. According to them, 'Caesar' was pronounced much like the German Kaiser, but with an 'a' sound in the second syllable as in 'car'.

[Evey]

That's what my classics professor says too... Caesar actually sounds more like 'Kai-zar'. But ecclesiastical latin is a lot softer sounding than the 'original' was, apparently.

[AgnusDei1989]

That's what my classics professor says too... Caesar actually sounds more like 'Kai-zar'. But ecclesiastical latin is a lot softer sounding than the 'original' was, apparently.

"Classical" pronunciation drives me up a wall. I always use ecclesiastical pronunciation, unless I'm teasing my sisters (whom it also drives batty.) In Latin class at WashU my professor was always correcting my "faulty" pronunciation, which never failed to amuse me...

[DJMitch]

I use ecclesiastical pronunciation, but my brother uses classical pronunciation, and ecclesiastical pronunciation drives him batty; so when I talk to him in Latin (which I do all the time - no not really), I probably use the classical pronunciation.
  Also the medievals would not have distinguished between gratias and gracias.

[AgnusDei1989]

True enough, mea culpa. I should have known that, I've seen it so in some old things -- eg one of my favorite marches, the Agincourt Hymn, Deo gracias Anglia/ redde pro victoria. Granted the English, who were unjustly invading France, shouldn't have won, but they sure had a good song to celebrate the victory.