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Can you suegest " A Prissfs Prayer fur hig Parents "-suitable for an Ordination Card?
We can't find anything in booksvery diffidently we suggest: (suite* typed and " spaced ") " JESUS, outGreat High-Priest--Obedient to Your Parents-MARY, our Mother-who gave us your Son-JOSEPH-our Protector-who lived and died for Him-Bless my Father and MotherWho offered me to You."
DO non-Catholics still defend Luther Not always. Dean Inge (Church of England Newspaper, 4.8.44) wrote: "I am more and more convinced that the worst evil genius of (Germany) is not Hitler or Bismarck or Frederic the Great but Martin Luther . . there is little to be said for this coarse and foul-mouthed leader of a revolution." c.f. Martin Luther, Hitler's Spiritual Ancestor: Wiener: Hutchinson.
Should the Laity assist at Vespers?
Yes; the latest Encyclical "Mediator Dei" says explicitly " it is extremely desirable that in reciting or chanting they should associate themselves, each in their parish " in this sacred duty. The custom " where maintained must not be lost, and where lost mast be re-established as soon as possible "so that Vespers may receive the dignity and splendour due to them "aided by " various means of interesting the piety of the faithful."
Quoting St. Ambrose, the lloly Father says: "The psalm . .. is the blessing of the people, the praise of God, the acclamation of the people, the applause of all, the univenal discourse, the voice of the Church, the resounding confession of Faith, the devotion full of authority, the joy of liberty, the expression of contentment, the echo of felicity."
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