Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost

Sunday 8 November 2009

DOMINICA XXIII POST PENTECOSTEN
Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
2nd Class, Green
Gloria; Credo; Preface of the Holy Trinity


Oremus.

Absólve, quæsumus, Dómine, tuórum delícta populórum : ut a peccatórum néxibus, quæ pro nostra fragilitáte contráximus, tua benignitáte líberémur. Per Dóminum.

Let us pray.

O Lord, we beseech thee, absolve thy people from their offences : that, through thy bountiful goodness, we may all be delivered from the bands of those sins, which by our frailty we have committed. Through.

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In Britain today is Remembrance Sunday. One Requiem Mass may be celebrated for those who died in the two World Wars. This should be Mass on the anniversary.

Links:

• Fr Goffine's The Church's Year
• Gregorian Chant propers

(image: HM The Queen leads the Royal Family at the Annual Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in Whitehall London (2008); Royal Air Force)