Chanting the Our Father in Latin

Prepare and practice chanting the Our Father in Latin by watching the YouTube videos and resources listed below.

Some YouTube videos on chanting the Our Father (Pater Noster) in Latin. 

NOTE: Gregorian chant is an ancient mode of singing the music of the Mass, which is a crucial part of our liturgical heritage and still encouraged by the Church.  It has its own form of musical notation called square notation or simply“Gregorian.”  Some of the videos included have the standard modern notation; others use the older form.

1. Male voice with Latin and English text  (standard notation)
2. Female voice with Latin and English text and musical score (Gregorian notation)
3. Male voice with Latin text only (no musical notation)
4. Multiple voices singing together (audio file only)- Click on “Order of Mass.” Scroll down to search for the Liturgy of the Eucharist section, including the Lord’s prayer/embolism/doxology, then find Latin, then click the Play button.
5. Shortly after Pope Leo was elected, he began to sing or have sung the ordinary parts of his Masses in Vatican City in Latin.  Recent popes have celebrated Mass both in Italian (the primary language of Vatican City) and in Latin (the universal language of the Church).  This is due both to the Church’s history of the sacred language and to practical matters, because many of the papal Masses are attended by people from nations around the world.  In using Latin, no one nationality is favored. This prompted the sacred music institutes at the Vatican to start a teaching series for children entitled, “Let’s sing with the Pope.” Here is the YouTube video from that series designed to teach youth the Paster Noster:
   (Male voice, Gregorian notation, animated red notes to follow)
6. Pope Leo leading the Pater Noster at Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica (video only, no words or notation). (Hard not to notice that he has a great chant voice!)