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]"
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 (Jan 12): Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur Nomen tuum.
Wednesday (Jan 14): Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra.
Week 2:
Monday (Jan 19): Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra
Wednesday (Jan 21): sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris, et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo.
Week 3: Gloria
Monday (Jan 26): Glória in excélsis Deo,
et in terra pax homínibus
bonae voluntátis.
Wednesday (Jan 28): Laudámus te,
benedícimus te,
adorámus te,
glorificámus te,
grátias ágimus tibi propter magnam glóriam tuam.
Week 4:
Monday (Feb 2): Dómine Deus, Rex cæléstis, Deus Pater omnípotens.
Wednesday (Feb 4): Dómine Fili Unigénite, Iesu Christe,
Dómine Deus, Agnus Dei, Fílius Patris
Week 5:
Monday (Feb 9): qui tollis peccáta mundi, miserére nobis;
qui tollis peccáta mundi, súscipe deprecatiónem nostram.
Qui sedes ad déxteram Patris, miserére nobis.
Wednesday (Feb 11): Quóniam tu solus Sanctus,
tu solus Dóminus,
tu solus Altíssimus, Iesu Christe,
cum Sancto Spíritu: in glória Dei Patris. Amen.
Week 6: Credo
Monday (Feb 16): Credo in unum Deum,
Patrem omnipoténtem,
Factórem cæli et terræ,
Visibílium ómnium et invisibílium.
Wednesday (Feb 18): Et in unum Dóminum Iesum Christum,
Fílium Dei Unigénitum,
Et ex Patre natum ante ómnia sæcula.
Week 7:
Monday (Mar 2): Deum de Deo, lumen de lúmine, Deum verum de Deo
vero,
Génitum, non factum, consubstantiálem Patri:
Per quem ómnia facta sunt.
Wednesday (Mar 4): Qui propter nos hómines et propter nostram salútem
Descéndit de cælis.
Week 8:
Monday (Mar 9): Et incarnátus est de Spíritu Sancto
Ex María Vírgine, et homo factus est.
Wednesday (Mar 11): Crucifíxus étiam pro nobis sub Póntio
Piláto;
Passus, et sepúltus est.
Week 9:
Monday (Mar 16): Et resurréxit tértia die, secúndum
Scriptúras,
Et ascéndit in cælum, sedet ad déxteram Patris.
Wednesday (Mar 18): Et íterum ventúrus est cum glória,
Iudicáre vivos et mórtuos,
Cuius regni non erit finis.
Week 10:
Monday (Mar 23): Et in Spíritum Sanctum, Dóminum et vivificántem:
Qui ex Patre Filióque procédit.
Wednesday (Mar 25): Qui cum Patre et Fílio simul adorátur
et conglorificátur:
Qui locútus est per prophétas.
Week 11: Kyrie
Monday (Mar 30): Et unam, sanctam, cathólicam et apostólicam
Ecclésiam.
Confíteor unum baptísma in remissiónem peccatorum.
Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum,
Et vitam ventúri sæculi. Amen.
Wednesday (Apr 1): Kyrie, eleison; Christe, eleison; Kyrie, eleison.
Week 12: Sanctus & Agnus Dei
Monday (Apr 8): 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 (Apr 13): 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.