One of the reasons I started this site, was to force me to start translating the Officia Pietatis - a daunting task for many - even those well-versed in the language. For me, it has been the fear of scrutiny in such a public forum, showing my weaknesses with respect to the language itself. Also,…
What you see before you is a facsimile – not in the usual sense as a scanned copy, per se – but a near copy of the original, a best effort re-creation of the 1734 printing. Retyped, as close as I could reproduce in the format and style of the original that I personally own.…
Thursday evenings, I host a men's group where we spend the first sixty to ninety minutes in random discussion and have a dinner that I prepare. I miss most of the conversation as I hurry about attending to the fire for the pizza and serve soup that I have been stewing for several hours. Afterwards, we sit down in my library and I recite as my usual custom a Prayer that Thomas Aquinas wrote & recited before study, preaching, or writing...
The creation of this site can be traced back to when I started collecting books about twenty years ago. Roughly, 14 years ago, after reading Homer's Iliad & The Odyssey, I decided to learn Latin so that I could read Virgil's continuation of the story in the original language - The Æneid. As I progressed, very slowly but steadily, I discovered that eBay had a much better selection of books in Latin to read than any bookstore - new or used. It was obvious that the largest selection of Latin was ecclesiastical - by a very large margin. I decided to purchase a book on Moral Theology by a Jesuit priest from the year 1748...
OFFICIA PIETATIS CHRISTIANIÆ ERGA DEUM 
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