I spent a good amount of time this Lent meditating on the Hebrew of Psalm 130, the last of the penitential psalms. I also pondered how to fit it to Latin elegiac verse, an activity highly praised by our Lutheran fathers (more on that to come). Below is my rendition of the Psalm, followed by [...]
It’s important to pray in Latin. It’s Lutheran to pray in Latin. Of these two propositions I am thoroughly convinced.
There are many reasons why I think it important to pray in Latin, but primarily I will speak now about its didactic function. You see, language, if it is to be truly language, must be used. [...]
What is the object of learning Latin? To this question there are many answers, all of which it would be tedious to enumerate. Two objects frequently specified are, first, to improve the learner’s English, and, secondly, to provide a Gymnastic for training the reason: according to the latter view the ‘reason’ is apparently the big [...]