Edward Pothier wrote:
AdAltareDei wrote:
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I'd also like to know how to say, "May God grant you many years."
I think a standard "shorthand" method, used often for priestly ordination anniversaries, is
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Ad multos annosEdward Pothier
in a monastery, a monk's feastday is announced at dinner (at the refectory) thus:
Pax! Cras recurrit dies onomastica reverendi patris Pauli. (the community responds:
Deo gratias)
similarly, in lay terms we could say:
Hodie recurrit dies natalis Gaii Jacobi Smith.

Ad multos annos, vere!