Posted by Rebecca Teti in Just me on Saturday, July 26, 2008 3:14 PM
A few years ago Benedict XVI asked that all Catholics learn the basic prayers of the Church in Latin to facilitate our praying together, so we made it a practice to pray a decade of our family rosary in Latin every evening. They’re used to it now, but at the time our kids’ reactions were decidedly mixed. I was reminded of this recently when Joseph, our newest reader, took a turn presenting the meditation for the First Sorrowful Mystery and got to:
In English, he prayed even more earnestly....Which I’m fairly certain was less a reading error than a freudian slip. Oh well. I’m sure he’ll thank us for it later.
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