Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Leonie
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Posted: Nov 10 2008 at 2:58pm | IP Logged Quote Leonie
Anyone used this resource, from Memoria Press? Right now, I am listening to the CD in the car, and enjoying the music. I wondered what the rest of the programme was like...

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Posted: Nov 12 2008 at 12:32pm | IP Logged Quote Mackfam
I am.

I'm having a lot of trouble using a grammar intense Latin program because *I* can't follow the grammar to aid in conjugating and declining. So, I put Latina Christiana I and II on the shelf for now. It has become too burdensome to follow along with and the kids were not enjoying it at all.

In reflecting with the children on what we find the most enjoyable about learning latin it is really to learn some church latin in an enjoyable way. I chose Lingua Angelica. Prima Latina is also a nice, gentle introduction to basic Latin vocab and includes a few prayers. We covered that already.

It is meant to be divided into two years with the second year studying the more difficult hymns. I do like the idea of dividing into two years, but I don't follow the suggested schedule of introduction preferring instead to coordinate the hymn to learn with the current season of the liturgical year. I also am not focusing on teaching grammar cases, declensions or conjugations, but you certainly could work on latin grammar if you were so inclined and in the teacher's manual each hymn has an explanation of the various case usage, parts of speech, etc. as well as conjugations.

Here's my breakdown for study - in case there is interest:

Advent
Veni, Veni Emmanuel

Christmas
Resonet in Laudibus

Ordinary Time - Prayers of the Ordinary of the Mass
Kyrie
Gloria
Sanctus and Benedictus
Agnus Dei
Signum Crucis
Pater Noster
Gloria Patri
**Table Blessing**

Lent
Stabat Mater
Ubi Caritas

May/Month of Mary
Ave Maria
Salve, Mater Misericordiae
Salve Regina

Pentecost
Veni Creator Spiritus

Corpus Christi
Pange Lingua
Tantum Ergo
Panis Angelicus
Ave Verum Corpus
Adoro Te Devote

Ordinary Time
Dies Irae (listen to and study Mozart's Requiem Mass - the usual accompaniment. view movie "Amadeus" which includes "Dies Irae")
Requiem Aeternam
In Paradisum

Christ the King
Christus Vincit

The song book is lovely and covers a bit of music history for each of the pieces. Of the 24 hymns in the songbook, a few are not covered in the student book for study and translation - Adoro Te Devote, Salve, Mater Misericordiae, Salve Regina, Dies Irae, Requiem Aeternam, In Paradisum. The translations for the pieces are found in the Teacher's Manual which does include some other helpful info. The student book is just a sort of fill in the blank/translate the verse on paper sort of workbook. There are some vocab translations and parsing exercises (I don't require much of this preferring instead to work on memorizing the hymn with the cd and translations for the verses). There are helpful grammar charts in the back of the workbooks if you're looking for that. The Music History in the back of the songbook offers just a blurb, but it has often been enough to spark some lovely rabbit trails into St. Thomas Aquinas. It's been really helpful for us as well since we attend the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (the Latin Mass) on a regular basis.

If nothing else, the CD is simply lovely to listen to. If you enjoy Lingua Angelica (CD), you'll love Agnus Dei - both I and II are favorites here.

HTH, Leonie!

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