Pater Noster
The Our Father
Jesus taught this prayer to his friends. The Church has prayed it in Latin for more than 1,500 years.
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About the voice: it’s your device’s own Italian voice, which is close to Church Latin but sometimes puts the stress on the wrong part of a word. When they differ, go by the blue spelling.
This device has no Italian voice, so it can’t read the Latin aloud. The blue spellings show how to say each word.
How Church Latin sounds
Church Latin sounds a lot like Italian. Each vowel keeps the same sound in every word, and a few letters work differently from English.
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