Lingua Sacra
Learn Ecclesiastical Latin through prayer, Scripture, and liturgy.
Start with familiar Catholic prayers, then build toward Mass responses, Vulgate reading, vocabulary, pronunciation, and spaced repetition.
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Designed for prayer, school, choir, seminary, and parish use with web access and native apps.
Three steps to reading Latin
Find your starting point
Take placement if you already know Latin, or begin with the first prayers and core vocabulary.
Practice in context
Hear each word, study grammar in real prayers, then reinforce it through drills, quizzes, and reading.
Remember over time
Spaced repetition brings material back before it fades, so vocabulary turns into durable reading fluency.
Everything you need to learn Latin
Structured Lessons
202 lessons across 18 tiers move from first prayers to seminary, patristic, scholastic, magisterial, and manuscript Latin.
Words You Can Actually Hear
Definitions, roots, examples, and 7,536 Ecclesiastical recordings make pronunciation part of every study session.
A Daily Liturgical Companion
The Today hub ties practice to the Church year with daily quests, a Word of the Day, and focused review.
Prayer & Liturgical Library
Study 52 prayers, the full Rosary, major litanies, chant, Mass responses, and daily prayer with word-by-word help.
Vulgate Bible Reader
Tap any word in selected Vulgate readings to see meaning, part of speech, form, and root at a glance.
Track Your Pilgrimage
See level, XP, streaks, lessons, mastered words, and badges while core lessons and reviews keep working offline.
Daily Challenges & Community
Daily challenges, optional sync, study groups, and shared leaderboards support parish, school, and seminary use.
Beautiful, immersive design
Built with love for the Catholic tradition
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Try one sacred Latin card
Tap the card, hear the word, then mark whether it stuck. This is the core Lingua Sacra study loop: Latin, meaning, grammar, and review in one focused moment.
Made for Catholic Latin, not generic drills
Prayer, Scripture, and liturgy first
Lessons draw from Mass responses, prayers, the Vulgate, hymns, and Catholic study instead of disconnected sample sentences.
Ecclesiastical audio throughout
7,536 recordings support the living pronunciation used in Catholic worship, with audio attached to words, prayers, and review.
A complete path, not a phrase list
202 lessons, 18 tiers, grammar feedback, Vulgate reading, and spaced repetition move learners toward real reading fluency.
Free start, optional Full Access
Core lessons and prayers are free on web and mobile; Full Access unlocks the full curriculum without ads or trial gimmicks.
From first words to seminary Latin
18 tiers, 202 lessons. A complete path through the sacred language.
First Steps
9 lessonsCore prayers, basic vocabulary, and your first Latin sentences. Pater Noster, Ave Maria, essential greetings.
Foundations
11 lessonsThe Mass ordinary, basic grammar, first and second declension nouns. Begin reading simple Scripture passages.
Grammar & Scripture
12 lessonsThird declension, verb conjugations, adjective agreement. Read John 1:1–5 and the Magnificat in the original Latin.
Intermediate Latin
13 lessonsSubjunctive mood, relative clauses, passive voice. Tackle the Te Deum, psalms, and longer Vulgate passages.
Advanced Grammar
10 lessonsDeponent verbs, ablative absolute, complex sentence structure. Read the Benedictus and extended Gospel passages.
Vulgate Mastery
11 lessonsExtended Vulgate reading. Genesis, Exodus, Psalms, and prophetic texts. Build fluency with sustained Latin prose.
Complex Constructions
13 lessonsConditional sentences, gerunds & gerundives, fear clauses, indirect questions. Read Philippians and Romans in the original.
Reading the Tradition
13 lessonsExtended readings from Augustine’s Confessions, Aquinas’s Summa, Isaiah, Wisdom, and Jerome. Medieval Latin vocabulary.
Ecclesiastical Latin
15 lessonsThe Ordinary of the Mass, liturgical calendar, conciliar and papal Latin, the Divine Office, canon law, and theological vocabulary.
Seminary Capstone
8 lessonsThe Armor of God, the Order of the Mass, and the last words of Christ. The capstone of the core path — the sacred language of the Church is now yours.
Patristic Voices
9 lessonsDrink from the patristic springs — Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, Gregory the Great, Leo, Cyprian, Tertullian, and the Desert Fathers.
Councils & Canon Law
9 lessonsThe Latin of the councils and the canons — Nicaea, Trent, Vatican I and II, papal encyclicals, and the living legal language of the Church.
Scholastic Philosophy
9 lessonsScholastic rigor: Aquinas, Boethius, Scotus and Ockham. The Summa’s structure, the cardinal virtues, metaphysics, and natural theology.
Latin Composition
9 lessonsCompose what you have learned to read — hymns, prose, sermons, and letters. Disputation, poetry, and the grand capstone: Lingua Sacra Doctus.
Liturgical Mastery
12 lessonsThe great hymns, sequences, and canticles of the Church: Te Deum, Pange Lingua, Dies Irae, Magnificat, and more.
Patristic Latin
12 lessonsRead Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, Leo the Great, Gregory the Great, Benedict, and Bede in the Latin that shaped Christian thought.
Scholastic & Magisterial
12 lessonsAquinas, Trent, Vatican I and II, and modern encyclicals: the precise Latin of doctrine, councils, and magisterial teaching.
Codex & Manuscript
10 lessonsPaleography, nomina sacra, scribal abbreviations, ligatures, and the conventions of medieval Latin manuscripts.
Latin you’ll hear at Mass
Essential responses, short translations, and replayable Ecclesiastical audio.
Built on proven learning science
Every feature is designed to move Latin from short-term memory into lasting knowledge
Spaced repetition
Words return at the right interval: familiar material spaces out, uncertain material comes back sooner.
Active recall
Lessons move through Learn, Practice, and Master so recognition becomes production.
Grammar-aware feedback
Mistakes surface targeted grammar notes, so corrections explain the pattern behind the answer.
Adaptive practice
Mastery checks and 20+ exercise types focus attention on weak forms without turning study into busywork.
Start praying in the Church’s Latin
Preview a core prayer, then keep going with the rotating prayer library inside the app.
Dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
A small daily return to Latin
364 phrases keep practice brief, memorable, and tied to the language of prayer.
Not sure where to begin?
Take placement in the app to skip what you already know, or start with the first prayer card above.
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