Breath and Spirit same in Latin
589237
Strength in love and family is firmly reminded throughout this novel. Evil can find you.l love the bond between mother and daughter. I found comfort in the hope of a afterlife.
3461062
This familiar spirit is so un known to Christians, I believe much false prophets use these through rejection. If a person has fruit which is un submission to authority and does not have a consistent Church but yet prophesies, do not except the word no matter how accurate. You may receive a curse because its a familial spirit.
1953327
I was looking for something familiar and easy-to-read for a friend's son who signed up for 2 years middle school Latin.  I always liked the language because the stories in it (mostly Roman history) are good -- but it helps having something newer around written in it to relate to (I also loved finding 'Winnie Ille Pu' when I was learning Latin) -- this Cat in the Hat has a whole new take on Latin in rhyming poetry and it's just easy to 'get' when you know the original.  I also ordered him 'Harry Potter' in Latin (Dominus et Domina Dursley!) -- I think knowing the plot and having some interest made the verbs easier to grasp and you start just leaping into it faster.  Cat in the Hat has a good glossary of English word translations in the back.
3250616
Spirits of the earth as the Native American saw them through the animals surrounding them. The stories are very similar to the shorter living guidelines as presented in the Chinese I-Ching. The path to right thinking; right living is the same no matter the culture.
1596528
This wonderful little book was presented to me many years ago after I had completed a Latin seminar. It was a wonderful gift, and I have found much use for the various phrases, and an extraordinary amount of humour that can be derived from the blandest of statements when translated into Latin. For example, the innocuous phrase 'Darn! There goes my beeper!' becomes quite funny in Latin:
Heu! Tintinnuntius meus sonat!
One has visions of Caesar fumbling through his tunic for some beeping object.
So, if you need a little Latin on the golf course (Alterum ictum faciam); on the tennis court (minime latum!), at the beach when spotting a shark (Pistrix! Pistrix!), or you just need to say Illud Latine dici non potest (you can't say that in Latin), you'll be prepared with this volume.
It even comes with a section on what to say when at the Vatican (where it might truly come in handy). For instance you might need to say 'Ubi possum potiri petasi similis isti?' when passing a cardinal or nun (translation: Where can I get a hat like that?).
So, don't waste your time on watching reruns of Insula Gilliganis or game shows such as Periculum and Rota Fortunae -- pick up this book today, and merge the worlds past and present.
Die dulci fruere. (Have a nice day.)
1132933
Very nicely done.  The corpus is in scale with the cross.  (many crucifixes have a very tiny corpus in relation to the size of the cross.) The only distracting thing is that the corpus is "Anglo Saxon" looking - fair skin, light hair - rather than Semitic as the historical Jesus was.  However, if one is using the crucifix as intended - as an aid to worship rather than focusing on minutia  - this one is done very well - many details that are conducive to meditation.
3693852
I have always loved this translation of the word.. It is very poetic.
527694
Chanting is new for me so I am starting to appreciate it's transcending affect.  The chimes and bells and chanting create a meditative type a state.  Good stuff!
4210546
This book is an introduction to the forms of Latin spoken in the later Roman Empire. It begins with an introduction to the topic with discussion of the term "Vulgar Latin" itself, a designation the author dislikes because of its pejorative connotations (my wife, in fact, got a good laugh when she saw me reading this book, and asked why I wanted to learn *that kind* of Latin).

The author discusses our sources for information about Vulgar Latin. One of the main sources is Latin grammarians railing against "mistakes" in Latin usage by the common people.

Another source is through direct comparison with the phonetic features of modern Romance languages, the daughters of Latin. For example, Latin long /e/ and short /i/ merged into a single phoneme in later Romance: Fr. toile, croire, poire, foi; It. tela, credere, pera, fede; all from Latin tela, credere, pira, fidum. The assumption, which is borne out by the inscriptionary evidence, is that in the popular speech of the late Empire these sounds were already merging.

Comparison of Latin forms with the lexicon of Romance languages is another form of information about Vulgar Latin. The word for "fire" (ignis), for example, is not continued in any modern language (except for late scientific Latin borrowings like "igneous", of course); they instead generalized the use of "focus" ("hearth") for "fire": Port. fogo, Sp. fuego, Fr. feu, Rom. foc, It. fuoco. There are many other interesting examples of this type in the book.

As alluded to above, we can also gather information about Vulgar Latin from inscriptions. The craftsmen who produced the inscriptions, while probably literate, are not considered to have had exposure to the thorough classical education of the elites, and so many "mistakes" in usage crept into their work. The author writes that as the many inscriptions were gathered and published over the last century or so, Romance linguists and Indo-Europeanists were able to analyze them, and discovered that rather than indicating an occasional "mistake", the inscriptions revealed systemic changes in the language as used by the common people.

In succeeding chapters, the author surveys the characteristic phonology, morphology, and vocabulary of Vulgar Latin as revealed in these sources.

I don't have any background in Latin or Romance languages, only a general interest in such topics, yet I found this book to be quite interesting and easy to digest. The author and translator use an easy, popular style, and the many illustrative examples are given in both the "proper" Classical form, as well as the form(s) found in Vulgar Latin. So the points the author is trying to make are immediately clear and easily understood.

A very worthwhile and enjoyable book.
3837280
Rudolf Anaya takes the reader into the realm of Latin mysticism and religious belief.  I have read this book many times and I still learn so much from it.
2411430
This book has ben a standard for Latin for Years. To have it on my Tablet I so great. I can review sections whenever. At present I am in a Yahoo group revising my Latin. At present I read one chapter a week , presently on Chapter 9 . It is easy to read and review on a Tablet. In some places on my Tablet some of the vowels are miniscule but it is easy to get use to this. Because of the vowel factor I gave it four stars.
717544
Like the author said in the book a lot of everyday English is from Latin. Great extras with common use phrases for easy everyday practice. Awesome book!
1153495
To put a little fun into studying Latin it fills the bill just fine.  I would recommend it as a supplemental reading.
4357774
Beautiful Soulful Music with a modern latin feel.  When the pope speaks it's not in English but the music translates to the heart.
1339872
I love this song. I heard it as a little girl and I forgotten about it. The Holy Spirit brought it back to my memory one day as I was studying the word of God, some songs are like that. They have a lasting effect.
560020
This is a somewhat subtle way for me to express outward my spirituality. I love that it includes both the moon phases and a pentacle inside. I wear this almost daily on the same chain I have a tree of life charm on. Im very glad I bought this.
4363104
Having read the Cloud of Unknowing in the Old English version, this is a breath of fresh air!  Simple, beautiful and exactly the message gifted in the Cloud of Unknowing.