Salue! and welcome to Retinenda, The Lutheran Latin website for those learning and using the ancient language of the Western Church. The word retinenda means "[Latin] should be retained," an idea recognized and practiced by the Lutheran confessions. This site offers texts and audio recordings in Latin of important Lutheran authors in order to encourage those seeking to make Latin part of their devotional life.
Pray Latin
In short, you need the Brotherhood Prayer Book. It contains a complete ordo for the office of compline. Then download for free Sacrosanctae Ecclesiae Confessionis Augustanae Preces, Editio 1.2 (SECAP). This has most everything you need to pray Matins (Lauds), Vespers, and Compline including psalter, hymns, propers, etc. Learn to use BPB, then start substituting Latin for the ordinary (the parts that don't change), and then gradually work your way up to using the Latin propers and psalms as well. My current practice is to pray using Latin for the ordinary (it doesn't take that long to memorize) and then I do a mix of English/Latin for the propers, usually singing the hymns in Latin but chanting the Psalms in English. Any mix that you're comfortable with will do.
At a future date, (Deo uolente), this free pdf resource will be updated, expanded, cleaned up, and offered in print as a full companion to the Brotherhood Prayer Book.
Finally, do explore the bibliography in SECAP, especially this title.
At a future date, (Deo uolente), this free pdf resource will be updated, expanded, cleaned up, and offered in print as a full companion to the Brotherhood Prayer Book.
Finally, do explore the bibliography in SECAP, especially this title.