Summer Residential Latin Course 2026

Teaching at the Latin Course, 2025 This will be the 15th Residential Latin Course organised by the Latin Mass Society. Booking deadline is Monday 15th June This information is also available as a PDF Preparatory material for beginner / intermediate students is available here The purpose of the Course We at the Latin Mass Society, mindful of our Charitable Objects to promote the ancient liturgy of the Catholic Church, and the use of the Latin language in the Church, have established this course to assist clergy who wish to learn or improve their Latin in order to celebrate Mass in Latin, and for all who may be interested in the language from devotional, cultural, or scholarly motives. What kind of Latin There are different registers and dialects of Latin as there are of any widely-used language, with specialist vocabulary and characteristic idioms. This course is concerned with the Latin of the traditional Catholic liturgy, and with the help of the Latin Mass Society’s coursebook, Simplicissimus , it makes use of examples, exercises, and reading passages from the Missal, and for the more advanced group other examples of Christian Latin. As well as introducing students to the cadences of the liturgy, this approach makes maximum use of whatever Latin students may have picked up from the liturgy.