Pope Benedict XVI, Porta Fidei (#9): "Not without reason, Christians in the early centuries were required to learn the creed from memory. It served them as a daily prayer not to forget the commitment they had undertaken in baptism. With words rich in meaning, Saint Augustine speaks of this in a homily on the redditio symboli, the handing over of the creed: “the symbol of the holy mystery that you have all received together and that today you have recited one by one, are the words on which the faith of Mother Church is firmly built above the stable foundation that is Christ the Lord. You have received it and recited it, but in your minds and hearts you must keep it ever present, you must repeat it in your beds, recall it in the public squares and not forget it during meals: even when your body is asleep, you must watch over it with your hearts.” [St. Augustine, Sermo 215:1]"
Grading Scheme for 10% Declension Portion of Course Mark (5%
for sg., 5% for pl.):
2% f. 1st terra; 2% for m. 2nd deus; 2% for
n. 2nd caelum; 2% for m. 3rd pater; 2% for
n. 3rd nomen
Grading Scheme for 10% Conjugation Portion of Course Mark
(5% for sg., 5% for pl.):
2% for Present; 2% for Imperfect; 2% for Future; 2% for Perfect; 2% for Pluperfect
do, dare, dedi, datum
Grading Scheme for 10% Memorization Portion of Course Mark:
see the breakdown on the Musical Memorization Help page
You have the option of singing along from memory to an MP3 version of the Latin prayers, if you so prefer for your oral exam.
It is recommended that you begin committing the following Latin excerpts to memory on these dates, and be sure to have one excerpt memorized before you move on to memorizing the next, but be sure to adhere to this schedule so that you do not fall behind:
Week 1: Pater Noster
Monday (Sep 12): Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur Nomen tuum.
Wednesday (Sep 14): Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra.
Week 2:
Monday (Sep 19): Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra
Wednesday (Sep 21): sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris, et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo.
Week 3: Gloria
Monday (Sep 26): Glória in excélsis Deo,
et in terra pax homínibus
bonae voluntátis.
Wednesday (Sep 28): Laudámus te,
benedícimus te,
adorámus te,
glorificámus te,
grátias ágimus tibi propter magnam glóriam tuam.
Week 4:
Monday (Oct 3): Dómine Deus, Rex cæléstis, Deus Pater omnípotens.
Wednesday (Oct 5): Dómine Fili Unigénite, Iesu Christe,
Dómine Deus, Agnus Dei, Fílius Patris
Week 5:
Monday (Oct 10): qui tollis peccáta mundi, miserére nobis;
qui tollis peccáta mundi, súscipe deprecatiónem nostram.
Qui sedes ad déxteram Patris, miserére nobis.
Wednesday (Oct 12): Quóniam tu solus Sanctus,
tu solus Dóminus,
tu solus Altíssimus, Iesu Christe,
cum Sancto Spíritu: in glória Dei Patris. Amen.
Week 6: Credo
Monday (Oct 17): Credo in unum Deum,
Patrem omnipoténtem,
Factórem cæli et terræ,
Visibílium ómnium et invisibílium.
Wednesday (Oct 19): Et in unum Dóminum Iesum Christum,
Fílium Dei Unigénitum,
Et ex Patre natum ante ómnia sæcula.
Week 7:
Monday (Oct 24): Deum de Deo, lumen de lúmine, Deum verum de Deo
vero,
Génitum, non factum, consubstantiálem Patri:
Per quem ómnia facta sunt.
Wednesday (Oct 26): Qui propter nos hómines et propter nostram salútem
Descéndit de cælis.
Week 8:
Monday (Oct 31): Et incarnátus est de Spíritu Sancto
Ex María Vírgine, et homo factus est.
Wednesday (Nov 2): Crucifíxus étiam pro nobis sub Póntio
Piláto;
Passus, et sepúltus est.
Week 9:
Monday (Nov 7): Et resurréxit tértia die, secúndum
Scriptúras,
Et ascéndit in cælum, sedet ad déxteram Patris.
Wednesday (Nov 9): Et íterum ventúrus est cum glória,
Iudicáre vivos et mórtuos,
Cuius regni non erit finis.
Week 10:
Monday (Nov 14): Et in Spíritum Sanctum, Dóminum et vivificántem:
Qui ex Patre Filióque procédit.
Wednesday (Nov 16): Qui cum Patre et Fílio simul adorátur
et conglorificátur:
Qui locútus est per prophétas.
Week 11: Kyrie
Monday (Nov 21): Et unam, sanctam, cathólicam et apostólicam
Ecclésiam.
Confíteor unum baptísma in remissiónem peccatorum.
Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum,
Et vitam ventúri sæculi. Amen.
Wednesday (Nov 23): Kyrie, eleison; Christe, eleison; Kyrie, eleison.
Week 12: Sanctus & Agnus Dei
Monday (Nov 28): Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua.
Hosanna in excelsis.
Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.
Hosanna in excelsis.
Wednesday (Nov 30): Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.