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and love all people as you would have us love them, through Jesus Christ, our Saviour, who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. The collect used today by the majority of Christians was not in a Trent/Reformation-era rite. It is from a prayer in June in the Verona/Leonine Sacramentary (the oldest surviving book of the Roman Rite, with material from the 5th and 6th Century). I will consider incorporating this into my Book of Prayers in Common. Concede nobis, Domine Deus noster, ut te tota mente veneremur,

Jan 12, 2021 author Altar servers are pictured as Pope Francis celebrates a Mass in the Zairean rite for the Congolese community in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Dec. 1, 2019, file photo. In the preface to a new book, the pope said the approval of the Zairean rite of the Roman Missal shows that it's also possible to develop a rite for the Amazon region. (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.) Last year, Pope Francis called the Zairean Rite “the only inculturated rite of the Latin Church approved after the Second Vatican Council.” YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Last year, Pope Francis cal...

Coetus Internationalis Pro Summorum Pontificum (CISP) to support the Pope in the fifth anniversary of his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum liberalising the liturgy according to the 1962 Missal, concluded with a pontifical Mass at the chair of Saint Peter’s Basilica on the afternoon of Saturday, November 3 rd, 2012. The celebrant was the Prefect of Divine Worship, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera. Most of the pilgrims entered the Basilica through its main entrance in a procession amid traditional prayers and hymns. The pontifical Mass was preceded by a message in French and Italian s...

Detail from "Simeon with the Infant Jesus" (c. 1796) by Benjamin West [WikiArt.org] As our Advent journey draws to a close, we want to consider the last two canticles presented for our prayerful consideration by St. Luke, the Gloria Nunc Dimittis. We now move into the second chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel, where we read of the birth of Jesus and various events connected to the infancy and early life of the Child Savior. These texts have been known to us since childhood, enchanting us then; it is devoutly to be hoped that they enchant us still. If they don’t, it may be a very worthwhile Chr...

Hospital quarantine room. Stock image via Shutterstock. Rome, Italy, Dec 18, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).- A Catholic chaplain at a COVID hospital in Rome said he has seen many reasons for hope this Advent, especially in the dedication of medical workers who give their all to save the lives of coronavirus patients. Fr. Cesare Pluchinotto told CNA that he had seen “so, so many signs of hope: signs of hope in the health personnel, when they take care of the most fragile people, when they fight to the last moment to save a life.” “I saw in these months a dedication which is not normally seen,”...