What Does The Prayer Really Say?
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Today in Adnkronos we read the following surprising report:

As Adnkronos has learned in the environs of the Vatican, the Secretariate of State is supposed to have received from the Chinese organizers of a large art exhibt "Leonardo da Vinci at Tienanmen" a message in which, in concomitance with the launch of the exhibition, a reference is made to a visit of Benedict XVI in China during autumn.

I nearly fell off my chair.

A kind WDTPRSer sent me a link to a story in the The Times about the Motu Proprio.

An article by Ruth Gledhill mentions the resistence coming from German bishops to the MP.  She claims that the Pope will not be deterred.  Here it is, edited and with my emphases.

The Pope is going ahead with plans to bring back the traditional Latin Mass in spite of objections from German bishops, sources have told The Times.

Pope Benedict XVI is understood to have signed an “indult”, or permission, that would allow Roman Catholics worldwide to celebrate the Tridentine Rite whenever they wished. At present the old rite can be said only with special permission from a diocesan bishop.

The return of the Tridentine Rite would represent a triumph for traditionalists and be an indication of the Pope’s determination to reinforce conservative Catholic doctrine as one of his most powerful weapons in the fight against secularism.

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The document had been expected earlier but is understood to have been delayed after a seven-page document of objections by German bishops was sent to the Pope.

Among other things, the Germans were anxious about a Good Friday prayer calling for the conversion of the Jews. A wider revolt by bishops’ conferences around the world would have seen off the indult, but in the end the Germans were isolated in their protest. However, when the permission is published, it is thought likely to exclude prayer for the conversion of the Jews, which leaders of the German and the British councils of Christians and Jews have spoken out against.

It could also include an “opt-out clause”, allowing bishops to prohibit it at a local level, which would placate both the German and the modernist French bishops. 

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"Modernist French bishops"!! 

In any event, I seriously doubt there will be an "opt-out" clause for any individual bishops.  That would entirely negate the point of the document. 

I also suspect the permission will be granted for use of the 1962 Missale Romanum as it is.

Part of the problem comes from the fact that many priests saying the "old Mass" are using some edition previous to the 1962 Missale.

If you have a command of Latin, and you pay attention while walking around Rome, you can find some interesting things. 

Here is an inscription on the facade of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. 

Here is the transcription:

                                 ORUM
ORDINIS             PRAED·
INSIGNIA           HEC SUNT

HAC ANTERIORI FOSSULA QUAM
LECTOR INSPICIS FOELICIS MEMO
RIE THOME DE VIO ORDINIS
PRAEDICATORUM CARDINALIS
CAIETANI CONSERVANTUR
OSSA· QUI DUM VIXIT ITA MO
RIBUS· ATQ OMNI DOCTRINA
HUMANO GENERI PROFUIT·
UT PRO TANTO BENEFICIO
DEO GRATIAS AGERE· AC PRO
EIUS ANIMA MERITO PRECES
EFFUNDERE TENEAMUR· HIC
QUORUMDAM ALIORUM INANEM
DECLINANS FASTUM HUMILI
HOC SECONDI IUSSIT TUMULO
VIX· AN· LXV· DIES· XXIX
OBIIT· AN· CHRI ·M· D· XXXIIII

Keep in mind that some words are broken and continued on the next line.  Also, some "ae"s are reduced to "e".  They wrote much as they pronounced the words at the time.  There are some abbreviations.  In the transcription I made some changes of the "V" to "U" when appropriate.

Who wants to take a shot?  Maybe one of you can supply some background on this famous churchman even as others work to decipher what is said of him on this stone.

Here are some of the places where recent readers are (I cut out the repeats). 

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