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'The time will come when we shall no longer be seated near the rivers of Babylon, tearful and sad, but sedebimus in pulchritudine pacis, in requie opulenta. [We will sit in the beauty of peace, in splendid rest.]

St. Gaspar del Bufalo

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Okay, small Latin lesson. I can't see how "sedebimus in pulchritudine" translates to "We will sit in the beauty"? How does it work? The rest I see but not that? :-[ ::)

Sure I can help there, let me guesstimate.

Pulchritudine is beauty, pacis is peace, requie is rest, opulenta is splendid..

Pulchritude, peace, rest, opulent would be the English words derived from these..

After that the sedebimus would be sit.

Now see this is partly not any Latin learning in me talking, just my eye for the English. If you keep an eye on the Latin and think of English words that might approximate it you get very far.

Sede is seat, so the rest is the grammar.

Think sedentary.

Ah ha! I've never used pulchritude (and we didn't use that in the choir I was in that sang a lot of Latin - I've moved since then to an area in which noone uses Latin. :'()
Pacis, requie and opulenta I could see, but sedebimus I didn't have a clue about either. Thank you!

I wish I could sing!  ;D

A lot of people who think they can't sing, actually can (when you hear them singing at Mass). Most choir directors love to teach people to sing even better. 

Maybe that's why you are drawn to more silent orders? How about a Benedictine men's choir. Wow! ;)
(I'm just being silly. ;D)

Oh you have no idea how it troubles me that there's practically no place where the monks -aren't- required to sing.

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Give my poor throat and the poor other monks' ears a break religious orders!

 ::)  ;D

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