From a priest…
QUAERITUR:
While I mourn the resignation of Pope Benedict I also mourn the fact that there is no particular Mass text with which I can pray for his health. If there were to be a Mass for a retired pope, what might that look like?
Good question.
I’ll confine myself to the older, traditional Roman Rite.
I think you could during a Votive Mass simply add the orations Pro Papa. I say this because they are virtually identical with the prayers Pro Episcopo, with the exception that in the latter you also name the bishop’s church. Benedict remains a bishop, after all, and his church was The Church. Also, were you to say Mass for him on the anniversary of his episcopal consecration (28 May), you could use – mutatis mutandis – the Mass In anniversario Episcopi.
Perhaps others have solutions.
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“mutatis mutandis” … how does this square with “say the black, do the red?”
I heard a priest during the Eucharistic Prayer say for Francis our Pope, Benedict our Pope Emeritus
He’s the Bishop Emeritus of Rome.
That should count!