Signum Crucis

The Sign of the Cross

We say this prayer while tracing a cross on ourselves with our right hand. It begins and ends most of our prayers.

Or tap any word to hear it.

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.