I was telling one of our altar boys that, for me, the best entry point for learning Latin would have been the 1962 missal. He is homeschooled and has completed two years of Latin. He just took his German test, and his tutor is the layman who trains the altar boys.
Another good entry point is song, here Cantiones Sacrae pro quinis vocibus, Sacred Chants for five voices. The letter that looks like a weird “f” is an “s”, so it is posterius, root word for posterity, from Middle French posterité, Latin posteritas or posterus (“following, coming after”), but here, when combined with prius, means before and after. There is another meaning of posterity: the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation, which harkens back to Eve and looks forward to Mary who is the second Eve.
The English translation rhymes. An English tutor is happy to hear a student say, “I am taking Latin next year," and I have.
Peter Phillips was a boy chorister, composer, and organist who fled England. He was ordained a Catholic priest after his wife and child died.
Another good entry point is song, here Cantiones Sacrae pro quinis vocibus, Sacred Chants for five voices. The letter that looks like a weird “f” is an “s”, so it is posterius, root word for posterity, from Middle French posterité, Latin posteritas or posterus (“following, coming after”), but here, when combined with prius, means before and after. There is another meaning of posterity: the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation, which harkens back to Eve and looks forward to Mary who is the second Eve.
The English translation rhymes. An English tutor is happy to hear a student say, “I am taking Latin next year," and I have.
Peter Phillips was a boy chorister, composer, and organist who fled England. He was ordained a Catholic priest after his wife and child died.
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