Memoranda

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A prayer is quoted after the Latin initial word Memorare , which is one of the basic prayers of the Roman Catholic Church and is sometimes prayed in devotions. In the Eucharistic liturgy before the 2nd Vatican Council it was also sung as communion . The memorare has largely disappeared from today's worship service. John Paul II said it in his sermon to St. Mass quoted on March 25, 2000 in the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on his 91st trip abroad. The members of Opus Dei have the habit of praying, the Memorare every day.

origin

Its origin is not entirely clear. It is often wrongly ascribed to Bernhard von Clairvaux . This attribution is based, although a few verses of the poetry allude to thoughts of Saint Bernard, on a name confusion with the French people's missionary Claude Bernard (1588–1641), who spread the prayer printed on prayer slips. Bernard, also known as the “poor priest”, said he learned this prayer from his father. The prayer then caused a miraculous healing in himself, whereupon he spread it further and used it in particular for the conversion of prisoners and those sentenced to death. He had the prayer printed in several languages ​​in up to 200,000 copies and made it the focus of his evangelism and life. He describes this meaning among others. a. in a letter to Anna of Austria , the wife of the French King Louis XIII. that made it popular at court.

Due to the close association of his person with prayer, Claude Bernard was often viewed as its poet. In the 18 copper engraved portraits that have survived in the Paris National Library, the prayer with the heading “ORAISON DU RP BERNARD A LA VERGE” is indicated below. Although Bernard is undeniably his pioneer, the Memorare was already used by Francis de Sales . The prayer can already be found in older manuscripts from the 15th century as part of the very long Marian hymn "Ad sanctitatis tuae pedes, dulcissima Virgo Maria". This is proven in the Hortulus Animae (15th century), the Antidotarius Animae of the healing Cistercian abbot Nicolaus Salicetus († around 1493) and the Precationum piarum Enchiridon of Simon Verepaeus (1570). When the Memorare was outsourced as an independent prayer is not clearly documented.

The text

There have been several text versions of the Memorare since the 16th century. In the 19th century it became a frequent version by a brief Pope Pius IX. Canonized in 1846 as part of the prayer Ave, augustissima Regina pacis and connected with the granting of a temporal indulgence . The indulgence was granted by the Sacra Congregatio Indulgentiarum on July 25, 1846, initially to the faithful in France and extended to the faithful worldwide on December 11, 1846.

The text of this version reads:

“Memorare, o piissima Virgo Maria, non esse auditum a saeculo, quemquam ad tua currentem praesidia, tua implorantem auxilia, tua petentem suffragia, esse derelictum. Ego tali animatus confidentia, ad te, Virgo Virginum, Mater, curro; ad te venio; coram te gemens peccator assisto. Noli, Mater Verbi, verba mea despicere, sed audi propitia et exaudi. Amen."

“Remember, most gracious Virgin Mary, it has never been heard that someone who took refuge in you, called for your help, implored your intercession, was abandoned by you. Inspired by such trust, I take refuge in you, mother, virgin of virgins; I come to you; I stand in front of you sighing as a sinner. Mother of the Word, do not disdain my words, but listen to me graciously and answer me. Amen."

literature

  • Nicolaus de Saliceto: Antidotarius animae. Kaspar Hochfeder, Nuremberg around 1495. Digitized
  • Nicolaus de Saliceto: Antidotarius animae. Kaspar Hochfeder, Metz around 1500. Digitized

Settings

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  • C. de Broqua: Claude Bernard, dit le Pauvre Prètre . Lithelleux 1913.
  • The Catholic parish service - Mass and Vespers on Sundays and public holidays, (...) according to the Vatican edition of the Graduale and Antiphonale . Tournai (Belgium) 1937.
  • Gradual triplex seu Graduale romanum Pauli PP.VI . Solesmes 1979.
  • Herbert SJ Thurston: Familiar Prayers: Their Origin and History . 1953

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Paul II: Sermon of John Paul II - Holy Mass in the Basilica of the Annunciation , Vatican homepage , March 25, 2000
  2. ↑ This and the following from: C. de Broqua: Claude Bernard, dit le Pauvre Prètre ; Lithelleux 1913, quoted from Thesaurus Precum Latinarum .
  3. ↑ Volker Honemann : Salicetus (Wydenbosch, Weidenbusch, etc.), Nicolaus OCist. In: Author's Lexicon . Volume VIII, Col. 511-515.
  4. ^ Volker Honemann, in: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, ISBN 3-11-022248-5 , Volume 3: Gert van der Schüren - Hildegard von Bingen. Berlin / New York 1981, col. 1169.
  5. ↑ Pietro Mocchegiani a Monsano (arrangement): Collectio indulgentiarum theologice, canonice ac historice digesta . Typographia Collegii S. Bonaventurae, Quaracchi 1897, No. 395 and 396, pp. 178-179.
  6. ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church Compendium, Appendix A) General Prayers , March 20, 2005

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