Latin Text Selections

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I don’t usually have a strong internet connection so I can’t spend too much time putting up the Latin/English and the layout is quite wooden. Leo, one of the Voices in the Wilderness, has suggested using Bible commentary on the Scripture posts. A useful suggestion, which I think I’ll begin soon. I intend to run through the posts beginning January, editing them with a more recent translation in addition to the standard Catholic Douay-Rheims, probably the RSV, (another good suggestion in the comments) and changing the timestamp the current time; earlier posts will of course begin to disappear.

In other news, I attended only my second Tridentine Rite Mass today. I’m beginning to get used to following the Latin in my 1960 Missal. Reading through the Vulgate an putting this blog up has certainly helped. No fuss; this is Latin everyone should be able to use easily. Thank you, Holy Father Benedict.

The Latin:

Exsúlta satis, fília Sion ;
iúbila, fília Ierusálem :
ecce rex tuus véniet tibi iústus, et salvátor :
ipse pauper, et ascéndens super ásinam
et super pullum fílium ásinæ.
Et dispérdam quadrígam ex Éphraim,
et equum de Ierusálem,
et dissipábitur arcus belli :
et loquétur pacem géntibus,
et potéstas eíus a mari usque ad mare,
et a flumínibus usque ad fines terræ.

The English:

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion,
shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem:
BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour:
he is poor, and riding upon an ass,
and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
And I will destroy the chariot out of Ephraim,
and the horse out of Jerusalem,
and the bow for war shall be broken:
and he shall speak peace to the Gentiles,
and his power shall be from sea to sea,
and from the rivers even to the end of the earth.