What Does The Prayer Really Say?
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Papal documents are usually known be the first few words of their text in their original language, usually Latin, like "Ecclesia Dei adflicta" (with exceptions like the German Mit brennender Sorge of Pius XI).

This is a serious subject, I know, but we need a sense of humor lest we go nuts.

So, what will the Latin title of the new Motu Proprio be for the derestriction of Mass with the older Missal?

Try to use Latin (or what you think might be Latin! o{];¬) or else a first few evocative words in your mother tongue.

I’ll start things off. How about…. let’s see….

Lacrimosos abhinc annos

or maybe:

Nos de cunctatione excusamus

or else on a happier track:

Magno cvm gaudio

Biretta tip to long time WDTPRSer Henry for the latest on the Motu Proprio derestricting the older form of Holy Mass.  o{]:¬)

Take notice of the careful language, like "It is said…"

My emphasis:

THE CATHOLIC HERALD 5 JANUARY 2007

“Pope picks up the phone in defense of the Old Rite”

BY MARK GREAVES

POPE BENEDICT XVI has spoken by telephone to a number of French bishops to persuade them to accept a wider use of the Tridentine Mass, it has been claimed.

The Pontiff brought French bishops who oppose the Tridentine Mass "to a reluctant but decisive change of view", according to the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP), an organisation of Old Rite priests that the Pope strongly supports.

It is widely expected that a papal document will soon be released to allow priests to celebrate the Tridentine Mass – using the pre-Vatican II 1962 Latin Missal – without the explicit permission of the local bishop, though probably only in the low-key setting of a "private" celebration. The document, which will be released motu proprio, or on the Pope’s own initiative, has caused concern among bishops in France, where traditionalist groups are particularly active.

But efforts by the French episcopate to "torpedo" the initiative have failed, according to Videre Petrum, the FSSP’s British newsletter.

"It is said that the mild but persuasive words of Pope Benedict, who personally spoke by telephone to many of the most intransigent enemies of tradition among the bishops of France, worked a sort of miracle, and brought them to a reluctant but decisive change of view, or at least to a recognition of the limits of disobedience," the newsletter said. Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez, a former prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, said last month that the Vatican’s Ecclesia Dei commission had discussed the document and would pass on its conclusions to the Pope.

The cardinal added that he did not expect the commission, set up in 1988 to oversee Vatican relations with traditionalists, to discuss the document any further.

Commentators say priests will be allowed to celebrate the Tridentine Rite without permission at "private Masses" that would be nevertheless be open to the public.

The proposed reform would put pressure on the bishops of England and Wales to adopt a more welcoming stance towards the FSSP, which currently has only two priests based in London.

Keep your blogoscope raised and scanning the horizon for a release of a statement in support of a derestriction of the so-called "Tridentine" Mass which our good friends over a New Liturgical Movement will be publishing.

Also, stop what you are doing RIGHT NOW and say a prayer for the quick release of the necessary Motu Proprio by the Holy Father.

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known
that any one who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help or sought thy intercession,
was left unaided.

Inspired with this confidence,
I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of virgins my Mother;
to thee do I come,
before thee I stand,
sinful and sorrowful;
O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in thy clemency hear and answer me.
Amen.

Today is also a First Friday.  Perhaps you might offer your Friday penance for this intention. 

Well, I have finally installed a word verification plugin.

"But Father! But Father!", some of you will say, "What about a ministry of welcome?"

Respondeo dicendum, "Tough."

I know, I know… I dislike them too, but the bottom feeders are sending lots of pretty vile referral spam. My filters are catching it, but it is a pain.

As a compromise, I found a verification plugin which allows me to modify the words used in the images.

Perhaps we’ll have a little fun with that.

Finally, I have found that if you register for the blog, you don’t have to go through the word verification.  I suppose you won’t see what words I have in the verification queue that way, but you will not have that extra step.

Here is one of my last few evenings to enjoy the view of the Sabine chapel.

If you are thinking, even thinking about going to see The Children of Men, rethink. 

It is opening in the USA.  I saw it in Rome, last month, with a certain measure of hope.  I had read the excellent book The Children of Men by P.D. James.

Avoid this irritatingly bad movie as if it were a dead goat rotting in the sun, and for the same reasons.

The movie grossly distorts the book and will leave anyone hoping for a well tailored script or sound performances severely disappointed.

I have given fair warning twice already, here and here.

Stay home and read the book.