Research guides: Ecclesiastical Latin: Prayers

Prayers

In his 2007 Apostolic exhortation Sacramentum caritatis, Pope Benedict XVI re-affirmed "that the faithful can be taught to recite the more common prayers in Latin".

Enchiridion indulgentiarum: normae et concessiones.
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4a ed. Romae: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1999.
This book is a collection of those prayers in Latin to which the Church currently attaches an indulgence. There is also an English translation, Manual of Indulgences: Norms and Grants.
The Raccolta, or A Manual of Indulgences.
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NY: Benziger Brothers, 1957.
This book is a translation of those prayers to which the Church formerly attached indulgences (until 1969). Those prayers which were published in Italian, are presented here only in English; but those prayers which were published in Latin, are presented here in both English and Latin.
A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity.
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Prepared and enjoined by the order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore.
New York: P.J. Kenedy, 1930.
This collection includes many prayers in Latin with side-by-side English translation.