Tuesday 18 October 2011

The Prayer of Humble Access...



Non accedimus ad hanc mensam tuam, O misericors Domine, fiducia iustitiæ nostræ, sed in multitudine miserationum tuarum. Neque enim sumus digni, ut colligamus micas de mensa tua. Sed tu es idem Dominus, cuius semper proprium fuit misereri. Concede igitur, misericors Domine, ut sic edamus Carnem Filii tui, et bibamus eius Sanguinem in his Sacris Mysteriis, ut nostra corpora peccatis inquinata munda fiant perceptione Sacratissimi Corporis sui, et nostræ animæ laventur in Præcioso Sanguine suo: ut perpetuo habitemus in eo, et ipse in nobis. Amen.


From the Liber Precum Publicarum, 1560.
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4 comments:

  1. davidforster18 October 2011 at 19:16

    You're sure it isn't "nostrae animae laventur"?

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  2. Patrick Sheridan18 October 2011 at 19:21

    David Forster, yes it should say that. Duly corrected.

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  3. Canon Jerome Lloyd OSJV20 October 2011 at 22:28

    One of my favourite prayers...

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  4. Lector Orientalis3 November 2011 at 21:45

    No doubt the Roman Catholic “traddies” will be thinking how nice it is that that Patricius is quoting something Catholic in Latin rather than all that Protestant Anglican stuff he has been coming out with recently.

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