One of you kind readers has helped me start the New Year on an upbeat.
Here is a translation of the now widespread Internet Prayer in
ARABIC
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صلاة قبل الولوج الى الأنترنت
. ايها الأله العظيم، الكلي القدرة،الأبدي،الذي خلقتنا على صورتك وأمرتنا ان نسعى وراء كل ما هو جيد وحقيقي وجميل، وخاصة من الشخص الألهي ، سيدنا يسوع المسيح ابنك الوحيد، امنحنا، نحن نتوسل اليك من خلال شفاعة القديس ايزيدور، الأسقف والطبيب، خلالرحلتناعبر الأنترنت، سوف نوجه ايدينا وأعيننا فقط لما يرضيك وأن يمنح الصدقة والصبر لكل النفوس التي نواجهها من خلال المسيح ربنا، امين.
UPDATE:
The fellow who sent the recording wrote, saying:
Please pray for this family with me – they have been away from “home” (Syria – Damascus, then the Wadi al Nusra, or the Christian Valley) for 2.5 years now since the war has been raging.
And also a version in…
TELUGU (spoken in S.E. India):
ఇంటర్నెట్ లోనికి ప్రవేశించటానికి ముందు ప్రార్థన:
సర్వశక్తిమంతుడవు మరియు శాశ్వతమైన దేవుడా, మీ రూపములో మమ్ము సృష్టించినవారా, మమ్ము మంచివాటిని, నిజమైనవాటిని మరియు అందమైనవాటిని వెతుకునట్లు చేసేవారా, ప్రత్యేకంగా మీ దై వీక ఏకైక కుమారుడైన, మా ప్రభువైన యేసు క్రీస్తు అనుమతి ద్వారా, మేము మిమ్ము తిమాలుకొనుచున్నాము. పునీత ఇసిడోర్ బిషప్ మరియు వైద్యుడుగారి మధ్యవర్తిత్వం ద్వారా, మేము ఇంటర్నెట్ ఉపయోగించేటప్పుడు మా చేతులు మరియు కన్నులు మీకు ఆనందం కలిగించేటట్లుగా, మేము ఎదుర్కునే అన్ని ఆత్మల తో ఓర్పుతో సేవ భావంతో ప్రవర్తించేటట్లుగా, మా ప్రభువైన క్రీస్తు ద్వారా. ఆమెన్.
I look forward to having recordings of both of these.
Also, I really do want to have an updated and corrected version in KLINGON.
Anyone?
When sending a new version, please send the TITLE and also a RECORDING by a native speaker of the language. It would be good also to run it by a Catholic priest of that language, to make sure that the idiom is correct.
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Drat! All 35 of the Klingon seminarians who were staying here had to return home to Qo’noS for Christmas celebrations, which include the burning the Yule rock and playing Swords for Bethlehem, as well as eating roasted K’Vort (a large green bird of prey for which their ships were subsequently named).
I’m sure one of them would have been happy to translate the Internet Prayer — in fact, given their legendary irascible nature, Klingons probably have one of their own. But they seldom use the internet, since what they read there so infuriates them that most of them, even the saintly ones, have smashed their computer monitors. And cell phone coverage is spotty.
sibnao says: All 35 of the Klingon seminarians who were staying here… And cell phone coverage is spotty.
I know, I know. Pretty frustrating.
I like St. Isidore (San Isidro) for internet patron, something productive for the Holy See to consider in 2018. The Basilica of San Isidro Labrador in Madrid ( http://www.sacred-destinations.com/spain/madrid-san-isidro ) could become a pilgrimage site for geeks. Getting Father’s Prayer approved is a very good start in the right direction. Thoughts?