How much Latin does the average Catholic know?

[Laudate_Dominum]

My dreams are often in Latin, if not in Greek, Hebrew of Syriac.

Just kidding. But I've certainly studied Latin.

I think it would be cool if it was a standard part of the junior high school curriculum; this is when I first started with it.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' date='Sep 7 2005, 11:29 PM']

I can juggle. (and not just juggling balls... rings, clubs, bean bag chairs, basketballs... "flaming torches")
  what's wrong with juggling?
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I wanna see this when you visit.

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' date='Sep 7 2005, 10:29 PM']

I can juggle. (and not just juggling balls... rings, clubs, bean bag chairs, basketballs... "flaming torches")
  what's wrong with juggling?
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Nothing!! It just seems to me that being able to have a conversation in Latin is about as useful a skill as juggling-- great for parties.

Please don't read that to mean that I think knowing Latin is not useful. I believe it is very useful....

But being able to say things like, "My cat is sleeping lazily under the blue blanket" is like a party trick.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Sep 8 2005, 09:17 AM']Nothing!! It just seems to me that being able to have a conversation in Latin is about as useful a skill as juggling-- great for parties.

Please don't read that to mean that I think knowing Latin is not useful. I believe it is very useful....

But being able to say things like, "My cat is sleeping lazily under the blue blanket" is like a party trick.
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Stulta feles ignava

[homeschoolmom]

[Old_Joe]

Could someone translate this for me:

Una Salus Victus

Supposedly it means "one hope of the doomed," but a priest friend of mine wasn't convinced that was a good translation.

[sweetpea316]

I know lots of songs in Latin (yay for 9 years of choir!)...but that's about it. And then just some other random common phrases and words. But then again, I'm not Catholic yet...so do I even count?

[homeschoolmom]

Of course...

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Old_Joe' date='Sep 8 2005, 09:38 AM']Could someone translate this for me:

Una Salus Victus

Supposedly it means "one hope of the doomed," but a priest friend of mine wasn't convinced that was a good translation.
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The one salvation...and "victus" doesn't make any sense in there. It doesn't modify salus, because salus is secretly a feminine third declension. This is why I hate those quote books...they never get it right.

To get the English you posted, I'd go with "una salus victorum"...or better yet "una salus damnatorum"

[Old_Joe]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Sep 8 2005, 09:08 AM']The one salvation...and "victus" doesn't make any sense in there.  It doesn't modify salus, because salus is secretly a feminine third declension.  This is why I hate those quote books...they never get it right.

To get the English you posted, I'd go with "una salus victorum"...or better yet "una salus damnatorum"
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It wasn' from a phrasebook. It's actually from a Sci Fi show that used to be on.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Old_Joe' date='Sep 8 2005, 10:29 AM']It wasn' from a phrasebook.  It's actually from a Sci Fi show that used to be on.
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[Totus Tuus]

[quote name='Cam42' date='Sep 7 2005, 07:23 PM']How about the new Missal?  Can you translate that one? 
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Into Latin? If you did, you'd find that it doesn't say what the old missal says, which is a shame.

[Old_Joe]

Speaking of Latin, In about one week the Newman Center is going to have the first of four Novus Ordo Masses said by Fr. Mitchell.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Old_Joe' date='Sep 8 2005, 10:40 AM']Speaking of Latin, In about one week the Newman Center is going to have the first of four Novus Ordo Masses said by Fr. Mitchell.
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Fr. Mitchell rocks! :

[Old_Joe]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Sep 8 2005, 09:41 AM']

Fr. Mitchell rocks! :
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Amen!

At least that's what I heard from Jenny Donelson. Here's the kicker for me anyway: the first one is on the Feastday of St. Joseph of Cupertino. For reference see my avatar.