What Does The Prayer Really Say?
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Another great one from The Crescat.

For quite a while now, I have been saying a prayer each day for the good reception of the Motu Proprio which will derestrict the older form of Mass, the so-called "Tridentine" rite.

I see now that Card. Dias has asked hundreds of monasteries and convents of nuns to pray for the good reception of the Holy Father’s letter to Catholic in China.

This is now exactly the right approach.  Our timing is good.

I ask all of you sincerely to say prayers for the good reception of the Motu Proprio.

May the hard of heart yield to the Holy Spirit when hearing of Vicar of Christ’s will.
May the eager rejoice graciously and with true thanksgiving to God.
May the ignorant seek first to learn before making judgments.
May the learned offer comments in charity.
May our priests use considered prudence.
May our bishops be generous and paternal.

VENI, Sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende.	COME, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of Thy love.
V. Emitte Spiritum tuum et creabuntur; R. Et renovabis faciem terrae.	V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
Oremus: DEUS, qui corda fidelium Sancti Spiritus illustratione docuisti: da nobis in eodem Spiritu recta sapere, et de eius semper consolatione gaudere. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.	Let us pray: O GOD, Who taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that, by the gift of the same Spirit, we may be always truly wise, and ever rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

I really like this story.  My emphases.

VATICAN – CHINA
Nuns to pray for Pope’s letter on China and full religious freedom

A letter signed by Cardinal Dias and the secretary of the Pontifical Missionary Union call on monasteries to dedicate at least a week of prayer so that the letter is well received and bears fruit. The prelate talks about the persecution and fidelity of the Church in China. For Fr Ciro Biondi, the Pope’s letter “will become a milestone in the history of the third millennium.”

Vatican City (AsiaNews) – More than 600 female monasteries are praying “so that the Holy Father’s letter is well-received, China opens up to the Gospels and give unrestricted religious freedom to all believers.” This initiative is the brain-child of Card Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, and Fr Ciro Biondi, PIME, secretary of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PUM), one of the Pontifical Missionary Works connected to Propaganda Fide. Their action comes as the publication date of the Pope’s “Letter to Catholics in China,” which the Pope signed on May 27, solemnity of Pentecost, approaches.

In a letter sent to 610 enclosed female monasteries, Cardinal Dias said that Benedict XVI wrote the letter “to express his paternal closeness and offer them some orientation about the life of the Church and the work of evangelisation in that huge country.”

The prelate calls on them to “say special prayers so that the Letter of the Holy Father is well received, China opens up to the Gospels and give unrestricted religious freedom to all believers.”

Cardinal Dias said that “the Catholic Church [in China] is split in two groups in relation to the government: an official Church recognised by government authorities and an “underground” Church. This creates a lot of problems and confusion among the clergy and the faithful.”

”All Catholics … are united in professing the one faith in their fearless loyalty to the Successor of Peter. For this reason many of them have experienced terrible persecution and died for the cause of Christ and the Church.”

Citing Tertullian, one of the early Fathers of the Church who said that the “blood of martyrs is the seed of the church,” the prefect of Propaganda Fide noted that “it is comforting to realise that the Church in China, despite the harsh persecution that has lasted five decades, is undergoing a strong numerical growth. Almost everyone of the hundred or so bishops in that territory are in communion with the Holy See, vocations to the priestly and religious life abound, the faithful attend holy mass in great numbers and are very devoted to the Most Holy Mary, Help of Christians and Queen of China.”

In the message to the enclosed nuns, Fr Ciro Biondi calls the Pope’s letter “a very important and much expected event that will become a milestone in the history of the third millennium.”

The PUM’s secretary calls on the nuns to “dedicate a week of prayers so that the message of the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, can bear fruit which He and all the Church hope for.”

He also calls on every nun to spread the word of the initiative to every monastery in the world.

Doing my part. 

I am told by a very well-placed source that the text of the Motu Proprio is being printed at the Vatican Tipografia.

On Italian news via RAI tg2 on Sunday, it was said that the MP will come "in the upcoming days" and "next week".

It has been said that the MP would come before the Holy Father leaves Rome for his summer break.  He leaves in early July.

UPDATE: The Roman daily Il Tempo has a story on the MP.  It states that the Pope will release the MP "in settimana… during the week".  Once again, we find the comment that at least 30 people have to make the request.