“Salus animarum supemus lex esto” — ”the salvation of souls must be the supreme law in the Church.” (Canon Law 1752)
 

The Entire Book of Psalms: Downloadable Audio Files in Latin

Listen to the The Holy Psalter in Latin

The Book of Psalms: Downloadable Audio Files in Latin

NEWLY RE-MASTERED

December 2019 FOR CLARITY

Do you wish to learn the HOLY PSALTER 

— the Book of Psalms —

in Latin?

Listen to the audio files for each Psalm, or download them all (free)

You can follow the Latin and English text at http://newadvent.org/bible/psa001.htm   (be sure to click on the "Latin Vulgate Bible" link just above the "Douay Rheims Bible" to arrive at the Psalms in Latin).

It is a wonderful opportunity for the Catholic Clergy, Religious and Laity to learn the Divine Office — or the Liturgy of the Hours — in Latin as well as the more familiar English. Please remember that each Psalm, as you listen to it, is prayed — not merely recited. You will encounter imperfection.

We nevertheless invite you to join us — and make perfect in your hearts what passes haltingly from our lips. We ask Mary Immaculate, the Most Holy Mother of God, to assist us in her unspeakable love for her children — for it is She who prompts us to seek the face of her Son. She knows the lisping of mere children and placing her gentle fingers on our lips teaches us better to pray. How much our Mother loves us!

All that is good and holy in these prayers is of God. All that is imperfect and faulty is ours. We humbly ask God, and we ask you, to overlook all that is wanting.

To listen to any Psalm in Latin, simply click on it below:

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Consecrated to Mary, Mother of the Word Incarnate
 

• The Seven Penitential Psalms are in Red (Psalms 6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129 and 142)

• The “Hallel Psalms” (Psalms 113-118) are in Fuschia
  They are called , “Hallel”, because they begin with the acclamation, “Halleluiah!” Jesus Christ and His disciples sang them as they went out from celebrating the Passover Meal, where the Lord instituted the Sacrament of the Eucharist, unto the Mount of Olives. They went forth singing these psalms. In some translations it says reciting, but the psalms were chanted. (See Saint Luke 14 verse 26 onwards. )

• For a Guide to Latin Pronunciation, click HERE

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OTHER FREE AUDIO FILES AVAILABLE:

• Basic Catholic Prayers in Latin and English — listen to, and learn, our holy Catholic prayers, download them, or request a free CD of all the prayers in Latin and English.

• The entire Holy Psalter, or Book of Psalms in Latin

• The Holy Rosary in Latin

• The Holy Rosary in English

• The Chaplet of Divine Mercy

• The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• The Chaplet of Saint Colette

• Abandonment to Divine Providence by Father Jean Pierre de Caussade, SJ

• The Imitation of Christ

• The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

• The Johannine Prologue: the Last Gospel Reading in the Latin Tridentine Mass

• Full Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel by Pope Leo XIII (from the Rite of Exorcism of the Roman Ritual)

• Litany of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary (also known as The Litany of Loreto) in Latin Only

• Prayer in Time of Peril, Affliction, or Temptation (from Matins)

• The Chaplet of St. Michael the Archangel in Latin and English

• Litaniae Sanctorum — the Litany of the Saints

• The Nisibene Hymns of Saint Ephrem the Syrian

• Liber Apocalypsis — the Book of Revelation — a Book for our Times —  read in Latin
   

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