I'm a little behind in keeping my church calendar and saints' days. Christmas season and its aftermath left me in a little bit of a state of religious collapse; I'm just now beginning to get caught up. I'm still a few days behind in my reading of the Hours, but I'm closing the gap.
I'm still slogging through the Latin version of the Liturgy of the Hours, and what has me in a profound state of irritation is that the Latin hymns in the Liturgia Horarum are not replicated in the English Liturgy of the Hours, which leaves me in need of a Latin-English hymnal if I want to keep the hymns in Latin (and to understand what I'm reciting). The Latin hymns are beautiful, and I want to learn them, but I'm stuck hunting down translations on the web or substituting English hymns for them. And I realize that this also means if I travel, instead of carrying one "Breviary", I'd have at a minimum three books -- Latin, English, and a hymnal.
I may have to compromise and just do English when I travel, but I am loathe to do that, as I have so far kept the entire liturgical season of Advent and Christmas in Latin. It may be a vanity, but I fear that if I get lazy and revert to English only, I won't go back -- and those four volumes of the Liturgia Horarum I had shipped from the Vatican will become expensive paperweights.
In a sense, I suppose, I must be making progress, because I've got my sin of miserliness working against my sin of sloth. My miserable black heart has become a kingdom divided against itself, so to speak. So, to paraphrase Carl Spackler, I got that going for me, which is nice.
All that being said, my Latin is getting better, and as I get caught up, I'm feeling my dicsipline return.