@Pontifex Latin Tweet

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1. Marchelli says:

   27 February 2014 at 5:24 PM

   I know for a fact that there is a team in the Holy See Press office that is responsible for the twitter account. Fr. Tom Rosica does a lot of the English Language stuff as he is the official English Language Spokesman
2. Tom in NY says:

   27 February 2014 at 5:44 PM

   Etiam infirmum cum gratia familia fere curat, noli timere infirmitatem.
   Even if you take the Spanish as original, ultro doesn’t seem idiomatic Latin; that’s why I suggested cum gratia. Gratia is , of course, always in our religious context.
   We’ll need to send our scholar to Latin prose composition. That term I was sent to work on the AAS.
   Salutationes omnibus..
3. WesleyD says:

   27 February 2014 at 5:56 PM

   Literal: “At home, we spontaneously care for the weaker ones. Why should you fear the feeble or frail of the human race?” (Not totally sure about this, since I can’t figure out why extimescatis is subjunctive.)

   Smoother: “At home, you spontaneously care for the weak. Why do you fear to care for the feeble and frail in the world?”
4. Andrew says:

   27 February 2014 at 6:23 PM

   WesleyD:

   “I can’t figure out why extimescatis is subjunctive”

   Because “ne + subjenctive” is a form of imperative.

   Ne dicas – don’t say! Ne audias – don’t hear. Ne timeas – don’t be afraid.

   Ne timeas, Zacharia, quoniam exaudita est deprecatio tua … (Lc Cpt I)
5. Palladio says:

   27 February 2014 at 6:26 PM

   On the fly, ad fontes…
   Re linguae latinae
   Syntax: awk. Put domi in first position, for sense and for balance, but I don’t love “ultro,” which is frigid.
   It’s ALL wordy, too, most un-Latiniate, even as the language is incomplete: if we stop with warning the faithful off of fearing, it sounds like those outside of the home had been mistaken for Dr. Frankenstein’s monsters: how about not fearing to love or care for them????
   Ne to govern the subjunctive takes, in classical Latin, the perfect subjunctive: Tom’s imperative is more natural, and of course also Catholic sounding, soundly Catholic.
   But wait, surely the Latin should NOT read ne or neve (a collocation, as best I can make out, from archaic Latin), but nec nec, one for each accusative, Classical Latin. Then the subjunctive becomes a jussive: may you fear neither x nor y.
   The author has thought nice thoughts, but perhaps not read much Latin literature. The Vatican has done better.
6. Imrahil says:

   27 February 2014 at 6:33 PM

   I don’t know whether Popes should tweet.

   I do think, though, that they should never let anyone else tweet in their name without at least reading through the message in person and checking it for orthodoxy (which in an ideal world if it comes from the Pope’s trusted co-workers is no problem) and also, if only for a millisecond, whether they personally would like to set off this tweet at that moment.
7. Tom in NY says:

   27 February 2014 at 8:18 PM

   @palladio:
   tibi gratias persolvo.
8. Palladio says:

   27 February 2014 at 9:10 PM

   @Tom in NY: et cum….
9. JonPatrick says:

   28 February 2014 at 5:07 AM

   I’m not sure why anyone should tweet, yet alone the Pope.
10. Pnkn says:

    28 February 2014 at 10:04 AM

    For today, we read:

    Maximi apud nos est ponderis Eucharistia ad vivendum, quia Iesus non tantum attingere nos per eam, sed etiam replere nos gratia sua cupit.

    The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.
11. BobP says:

    28 February 2014 at 5:51 PM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiJBWewQb4o

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