Phrases from the Latin Mass that warm your heart?

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IN THE NAME of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
I will go in unto the Altar of God.
To God, Who giveth joy to my youth.

Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.
R. For Thou, O God, art my strength: why hast Thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflictech me?
V. Send forth Thy light and Thy truth: they have led me and brought me unto Thy holy hill, and into Thy tabernacles.
R. And I will go in unto the Altar of God: unto God, Who giveth joy to my youth.
V. I will praise Thee upon the harp, O God, my God: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?
R. Hope thou in God, for I will yet praise Him: Who is the salvation of my countenance, and my God.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
R. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

V. I will go in unto the Altar of God.
R. Unto God, Who giveth joy to my youth.

V. Our help is in the Name of the Lord.
R. Who hath made heaven and earth.

I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, to blessed Michael the Archangel, to blessed John the Baptist, to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, to all the Saints, and to you brethren, that I have sinned exceedingly, in thought, word and deed: through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I beseech blessed Mary ever Virgin, blessed Michael the Archangel, blessed John the Baptist, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, all the Saints, and you brethren, to pray to the Lord our God for me.

R.May Almighty God have mercy upon you, forgive you your sins, and bring you to life everlasting.
V. Amen

*the people *

I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, to blessed Michael the Archangel, to blessed John the Baptist, to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, to all the Saints, and to you Father, that I have sinned exceedingly, in thought, word and deed: through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I beseech blessed Mary ever Virgin, blessed Michael the Archangel, blessed John the Baptist, the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, all the Saints, and you Father, to pray to the Lord our God for me.

V. May Almighty God have mercy upon you, forgive you your sins, and bring you to life everlasting.
R. Amen.

V. May the Almighty and merciful God grant us pardon, absolution, and remission of our sins.
R. Amen.

V. Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life.
R. And Thy people shall rejoice in Thee.
V. Show us, O Lord, Thy mercy.
R. And grant us Thy salvation.
V. O Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come unto Thee.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.

Take away from us our iniquities, we entreat Thee, O Lord, that with pure minds we may worthily enter into the Holy of Holies.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
We beseech Thee, O Lord, by the merits of Thy Saints, whose relics are here, and of all the Saints, that Thou wilt deign to pardon me all my sins. Amen.

Be blessed by Him in Whose honor thou art burnt. Amen.

V.LORD, have mercy.
R. Lord, have mercy.
V. Lord, have mercy.

R. Christ, have mercy.
V. Christ, have mercy.
R. Christ, have mercy.

V. Lord, have mercy.
R. Lord, have mercy.
V. Lord, have mercy.

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GLORY be to God on high. And on earth peace to men of good will. We praise Thee. We bless Thee We adore Thee. We glorify Thee. We give Thee thanks for Thy great glory. Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty. Lord Jesus Christ, Only-begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father. Thou Who takest away the sins of the world have mercy on us. Thou who takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou Who sittest at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For Thou alone art holy. Thou alone, O Jesus Christ, art most high. With the Holy Ghost, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.

Cleanse my heart and my lips, O Almighty God, Who didst cleanse the lips of the prophet Isaias with a burning coal; through Thy gracious mercy so purify me that I may worthily proclaim Thy holy Gospel. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Grant, O Lord, Thy blessing.
S.May the Lord be in your heart and on your lips that you may worthily and fittingly proclaim His Gospel. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.

V. A continuation of the holy Gospel according to N., (or The beginning,)
Glory be to Thee, O Lord.

Wow. that is a lot of awareness of where the priest and servers are. They are in fact placing themselves before God and the Blessed Sacrament. You can lose count of the times God’s justice is acknowledged and His mercy begged for. So demanding of reverence while in the Holy of Hollies, the Sanctuary.
 
Wow. Now that’s reverence.

Every part of it is a beautiful prayer. Each line is worthy of reflection.
At_Trent said:
I will go in unto the Altar of God.
To God, Who giveth joy to my youth.
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That’s truly beautiful 🙂
 
Timothy17 said:
Wow. Now that’s reverence.

Every part of it is a beautiful prayer. Each line is worthy of reflection.

That’s truly beautiful 🙂
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After wandering the unstable, chaotic, battlefield of the Novus Ordo for the better part of thirty-five years, the Preparatory Prayers at the Foot of the Altar were immediately familiar to my ears. Those were the words that welcomed me back and assured me that my home had not been totally destroyed.

From the Roman Daily Missal 1962:

*The Mass begins with the Sign of the Cross, the Sign of our Redemption.

At Mass, we are in the company of our Lord, with Whom we associate ourselves in order to live like Him by living of Him, in order to die as He died and rise again with Him.

Truly attending Mass means actively seeking to identify ourselves with Christ in the Sacred Host, paying attention to the words of the liturgical texts, which are a mirror of the soul of Our Lord as He offers the sacrifice to His Father. It means adopting His state of mind as far as we are able, in order to leave Mass with a will that is more apt to imitate Christ in reality.

The celebrant longs to ascend to the altar of God, there to perform his holy office and to draw near to the Lord God, even to union with Him in the Eucharist. He conifdes himself to the mercy of God, source of light salvation and peace Who imparts to us unalterable youth of soul and blissful immortality.*

Psalm 42 and the The Last Gospel have been eliminated from the Ordinary Form, robbing it of perspective. These prayers retain their proper place at the beginning and the end of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Liturgy. They remind us of who we are as Catholics and why we attend the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the first place. They inspire me to arrive early to prepare myself for Mass and to kneel and offer thanksgiving before leaving church.

With Gratitude.
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mick321 said:
After wandering the unstable, chaotic, battlefield of the Novus Ordo for the better part of thirty-five years, the Preparatory Prayers at the Foot of the Altar were immediately familiar to my ears. Those were the words that welcomed me back and assured me that my home had not been totally destroyed.
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That’s how I feel too, even though I have been an OF’er for all 18 years of my life. Something was just wrong after a while, and literally the moment I heard about the Latin Mass and just looked at pictures, and when I saw the hybrid Latin/English Mass on EWTN, I was in shock. THIS was Catholic. FINALLY!!

If anybody’s been to St. Boniface, well THAT was my first Latin Mass. My mother (who had that Mass as a young child) was staring at me like I was crazy when I broke down bawling the moment we got to the car. Partially because of how beautiful it was, partially because I don’t understand how people gave this up for all of the ugliness.

Also I like the “Domine non sum dignis” prayer and what the priest says when we receive Our Lord. This and the prayers the priest says on our behalf, asking God over and over again to take us to heaven, are beautiful and I think are far more spiritually beneficial to us than the new missal, where there are far less prayers for us. And the prayers of a priest, especially in front of the Tabernacle, over and over again, are surely taken into consideration on our dying day.
 
ljubim said:
That’s how I feel too, even though I have been an OF’er for all 18 years of my life. Something was just wrong after a while, and literally the moment I heard about the Latin Mass and just looked at pictures, and when I saw the hybrid Latin/English Mass on EWTN, I was in shock. THIS was Catholic. FINALLY!!

If anybody’s been to St. Boniface, well THAT was my first Latin Mass. My mother (who had that Mass as a young child) was staring at me like I was crazy when I broke down bawling the moment we got to the car. Partially because of how beautiful it was, partially because I don’t understand how people gave this up for all of the ugliness.

Also I like the “Domine non sum dignis” prayer and what the priest says when we receive Our Lord. This and the prayers the priest says on our behalf, asking God over and over again to take us to heaven, are beautiful and I think are far more spiritually beneficial to us than the new missal, where there are far less prayers for us. And the prayers of a priest, especially in front of the Tabernacle, over and over again, are surely taken into consideration on our dying day.
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God bless you 🙂
 
Introibo ad altare Dei. Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.
I will go in to the altar of God. To God who giveth joy to my youth.

If I live to old age, I will always say this with joy, b/c I hope my soul will be ever young!
Quod ore sumpsimus, Domine, pura mente capiamus et de munere temporali fiat nobis remedium sempiternum.

Corpus tuum, Domine, quod sumpsi, et Sanguis quem potavi, adhaereat visceribus meis: et praesta ut in me non remaneat scelerum macula, quem pura et sancta refecerunt sacramenta. Qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

*Grant, O Lord, that what we have taken with our mouth, we may receive with a pure mind, and from a temporal gift may it become for us an eternal remedy.

May Thy Body, O Lord, which I have received, and Thy Blood which I have drunk, cleave to mine innermost being: and grant that no stain of sin may remain in me, who have been fed with this pure and holy Sacrament. Who livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen.*

I love that feeling of “from time into forever” it gives me.
Qui in ligno vincebat, in ligno quoque vinceretur.
That he who overcame by a tree, by a tree also might be overcome.

From the Preface of the Holy Cross; I am always struck by the image – I think of the Devil in the Garden of Eve, and now God has shown him how it is.
There’s more moments and gestures, like when the Sign of the Cross is made five times during the Final Doxology – ah, I can’t explain it, but my soul floats with bliss! And I wholeheartedly agree with ljubim about the Confiteor… the beauty of the chant is wonderful, and I like that it specifically mentions heavenly members of God’s family.

I was born after VII, but as a history major, I realised how much of the Church’s history was connected with Latin and so took the opportunity to study it. I also read many lives of the saints; this Mass is what a lot of my patrons knew and was how they worshiped. It makes me feel close to them.

take care,
amsjj 🙂

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Jesus, God and man,
imprisoned by love in Thy most holy Sacrament,
have mercy upon us.
– Venerable John Henry Newman, December 22, 1851
(LD, XIV, 511).
 
Sarah25 said:
For some reason the part of the above I bolded has always jumped out at me and made me feel all warm and fuzzy 👍
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Me too…it is utterly sublime. I adore the Asperges mei and the Last Gospel and the Ecce Homo and well really the whole Mass is sublime in its beauty.
 
Dominus Vobiscum: Et cum Spiritu tuo
May the Lord be with you: And with thy Spirit.

Kyrie Eleison, all the Confiteor, and all the Agnus Dei!
 
amsjj said:
I was born after VII, but as a history major, I realised how much of the Church’s history was connected with Latin and so took the opportunity to study it. I also read many lives of the saints; this Mass is what a lot of my patrons knew and was how they worshiped. It makes me feel close to them.
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I know exactly what you’re talking about! I was reading St. John Vianney’s biography, and when I flipped the page and saw a picture of him giving first communion, I got all choked up because there was a high altar, there were six candles, there was the altar rail and there was the paten. Once you’ve got the Latin Mass down, you could go back in time and walk into any parish like the one in Ars, or go to Mass with a saint, and you’d feel right at home.

Call me crazy, but I am aspiring to be one of those Catholic nerds who can hold a conversation in Latin 😃
 
ljubim said:
I know exactly what you’re talking about! I was reading St. John Vianney’s biography, and when I flipped the page and saw a picture of him giving first communion, I got all choked up because there was a high altar, there were six candles, there was the altar rail and there was the paten. Once you’ve got the Latin Mass down, you could go back in time and walk into any parish like the one in Ars, or go to Mass with a saint, and you’d feel right at home.
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We must remember this though: I’ve heard that in his lifetime St. John Vianney would have celebrated Mass according to the Rite of Lyons, the see of the Gallican primate (which however is indeed one local ‘Use’ of the Roman Rite, albeit one which has preserved elements of the Gallican liturgies). In fact, he really wished to celebrate the Mass as done in Rome because he wanted to do things the Pope it, and partly because in his time, the Lyonese Missal was being ‘infected’ by Neo-Gallicanism - a problem which was fortunately rectified in its subsequent editions, returning it more and more towards the authentic tradition of the medieval Church of Lyon.
Call me crazy, but I am aspiring to be one of those Catholic nerds who can hold a conversation in Latin 😃
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Hey, count me in! 😃

Now to answer the main question: one paragraph (sorry, I can’t do a phrase :p) I really like from the EF is from the Common Preface:

…per Christum Dominum nostrum: per quem maiestatem tuam laudant Angeli, adorant Dominationes, tremunt Potestates, Caeli caelorumque Virtutes, ac beata Seraphim, socia exsultatione concelebrant. Cum quibus et nostras voces ut admitti iubeas, deprecamur, supplici confessione, dicentes:

…through Christ our Lord: through whom angels praise Thy majesty, Principalities adore, Powers tremble. The heavens and heavenly virtues, and blessed seraphim with united exultation praise Thee. With whom we pray that we may be admitted to join our humble voices, in suppliant confession, saying:

Even by merely reading it (I’ve yet to actually attend an EF Mass in person), you can really feel the power of this Preface. It is one of those points which shows that we on earth are not alone in praising our Lord - even the heavenly hosts do so!
 
Very simply,

Sursum corda

Lift up your hearts. Such a beautiful image for me to begin the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
 
So many warm my heart including “I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of Thy house and the place where Thy glory dwelleth” and “Corpus Domini Nostri Jesu Christi custodiat animam tuam in vitam aeternum.” May the body of Our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your soul unto life everlasting. And the entire Last Gospel especially “…and the Light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it…”

I’m especially loving the Vidi Aquam this year - Vidi aquam egredientem de templo, a latere dextro, alleluia: et omnes ad quos pervenit aqua ista salvi facti sunt, et dicent, alleluia, alleluia.

I saw water flowing from the right side of the temple, alleluia; and all they to whom that water came were saved, and they shall say alleluia, alleluia! :harp:
 
It is hard to pick one thing, but I have always been moved by the “Unde et Memores” portion of the Canon which was unfortunately removed from the OF canon. To me it really emphasizes the Mass as the Holy Sacrifice:

“Unde et memores, Domine, nos servi tui, sed et plebs tua sancta, ejusdem Christi Filii tui Domini nostri tam beatae Passionis nec non et ab inferis Ressurectionis, sed et in coelos gloriosae Ascenionis: offerimus praeclarae majestati tuae de tuis donis ac datis hostiam + puram, hostiam + sanctam, hostiam + immaculatam, Panem + sanctam vitae aeternae, et Calicem + salutis perpetuae.”

Mindful therefore O Lord, not only of the blessed passion of the same Christ your Son, our Lord, but also of His resurrection form the dead, and finally his glorious ascension into heaven, we, Your ministers, as also Your holy people, offer to Your supreme Majesty, of the gifts bestowed upon us, the pure + Victim, the holy + Victim, the all perfect + Victim: the holy + Bread of life eternal and the Chalice + of unending salvation.
 
At_Trent said:
It’s all so reverent. When I first read the text, I was very moved by the prayers at the foot of the altar. So much preparation, penance, and patience to ready the Priest and Servers to dare approach the Tabernacle. And such total awareness shown in venerating the relics.

All done with the priest facing God in the Real Presence and his back to the world and it’s prince Satan 🙂
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I feel the same way about the prayers at the foot of the Altar. They are so penitent, humble & said that the priest may be worthy to pray the Mass & that we may be made worthy to pray it with him.

I believe that my very favorite prayer is the Invocation of the Saints which is prayed during the Canon of the Mass:

Communicantes, et memoriam venerantes,
in primis gloriosae semper Virginis Mariae,
Genitricis Dei et Domini nostri Iesu Christi:
sed et beati Ioseph eiusdem Virginis Sponsi,
et beatorum Apostolorum ac Martyrum tuorum,
et omnium Sanctorum tuorum;
quorum meritis precibusque concedas,
ut in omnibus protectionis tuae muniamur auxilio.

IN COMMUNION WITH & honoring the memory of…

The first time I had heard this, during the past 40 yrs.,was right after Summorum Pontificum & it brought tears to my eyes. (Eucharistic Prayer #1, hadn’t been used in my area since the birth of the Novus Ordo.) It’s wonderful to be reminded that, sinner as I am, I part of the Communion of Saints & to actually hear the names of those included in the Roman Canon.
 
Lormar said:
I am never at Holy Mass that this phrase doesn’t always strike me from the Last Gospel:

AND THE LIGHT SHINETH IN DARKESSS, AND THE DARKNESS DID NOT COMPREHEND IT

I always think to myself that nothing has changed in two thousand years.****

Ah yes…the last gospel from John 1, it embraces the wholeness of our faith, “from In the beginning was the Word & the Word was with God…”.
(In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum. Hoc erat in principio apud Deum. Omnia per ipsum facta sunt: et sine ipso factum …)

to…**And the Word was made flesh, & dwelt among us, & we saw His Glory, the glory as it were of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace & truth. **
(Verbum caro factum est et habitavit in nobis et vidimus gloriam eius quasi unigeniti a Patre plenum gratiae et veritatis)

LOVE IT!!
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jonpd said:
It is hard to pick one thing, but I have always been moved by the “Unde et Memores” portion of the Canon which was unfortunately removed from the OF canon. To me it really emphasizes the Mass as the Holy Sacrifice:

“Unde et memores, Domine, nos servi tui, sed et plebs tua sancta, ejusdem Christi Filii tui Domini nostri tam beatae Passionis nec non et ab inferis Ressurectionis, sed et in coelos gloriosae Ascenionis: offerimus praeclarae majestati tuae de tuis donis ac datis hostiam + puram, hostiam + sanctam, hostiam + immaculatam, Panem + sanctam vitae aeternae, et Calicem + salutis perpetuae.”

Mindful therefore O Lord, not only of the blessed passion of the same Christ your Son, our Lord, but also of His resurrection form the dead, and finally his glorious ascension into heaven, we, Your ministers, as also Your holy people, offer to Your supreme Majesty, of the gifts bestowed upon us, the pure + Victim, the holy + Victim, the all perfect + Victim: the holy + Bread of life eternal and the Chalice + of unending salvation.
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It reminds me of this custom which prevailed in many areas during the Middle Ages, where the priest would make a cruciform position when reciting the Unde et Memores. This practice of extending the arms in forma crucis never made it to the 1570 Roman Missal and its later revisions, but it was still performed in some other rites. 🙂
 
CradleCath said:
I feel the same way about the prayers at the foot of the Altar. They are so penitent, humble & said that the priest may be worthy to pray the Mass & that we may be made worthy to pray it with him.
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Yes! On a DVD I have of ICRSS’s Mass of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross – I love that it takes them like 5 minutes to even touch the altar! Unhurried preparatory prayers, a focus of the solemnity of the Mass, lifts the occasion to the sublime.

And jonpd: The “Unde et memores” is another one of my favorites, too! The Sign of the Cross is made five times there as well, so beautiful!

take care,
amsjj 🙂

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Jesus, God and man,
imprisoned by love in Thy most holy Sacrament,
have mercy upon us.
– Venerable John Henry Newman, December 22, 1851
(LD, XIV, 511).
 
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