Father Z (via I See a Light) links to A YouTube video of Father Reginald Foster speaking in Latin on Latin.

Here’s my (probably imperfect) translation on hearing him:

The Romans did not have the concepts that we have today. So we need to sweat and to work somehow to regain the concepts. This is the difficulty. If we read their daily acts, it’s another language, another way of thinking [habitus mentis]. The Romans did not speak like we do today. This is the difficulty. So, we need to consider, which I like to do, huh. To act, to consider, to contemplate: “What do we say today?” “What did the Romans say?” and “What would the Romans say if they were speaking today?”

The whole history of the western Church is Latin. And this is the greatest difficulty. If someone loses–rather if we lose–if someone loses this connection with the whole history of the Church, something is lost. And if someone can’t open the books of St. Thomas, or even St. Augustine, or the Church, or the Councils, and understand them in Latin, he is excluded, no? He is excluded, cut off, lost. And this is my difficulty. Because still the whole context of our history is the Latin language.

I finally got around to subtitling Seminarians in the Third Millennium.

Two subtitled versions are available: MPEG-4 (25MB) and Microsoft MPEG-4 (25MB).

I have not tested these with Windows Media Player, etc. If both do not work, please let me know so I can re-encode them.

You can find the video in various formats on the media page of my Kenrick website.

The Kenrick Alumni Dinner was last night. For this occasion, some of my classmates and I made a video, which was shown to the alumni and seminary community. I think it went over pretty well.

The premise: The class of 1957 made a film about what the seminary would be like 50 years in the future, i.e., 2007. This film appeared on an obscure ecclesiastical television show entitled “The Rectory.” Our video is (ostensibly) a segment of that television show, which includes the video from the class of 1957.

You can watch Seminarians in the Third Millennium on YouTube.

Seminarians in the Third Millennium is in various formats on my Kenrick website.

Evan (Billy O’Malley) Harkins’s blog: Galea Salutis.

Anthony (Narrator, Smoking Seminarian #2) Ochoa’s blog: Sonet Vox Tua, including his post on the topic.

Nick (Video Editing and Encoding, Rev. Schmitz, S.J.) Winker’s blog: Clever Title Goes Here.