Munda cor meum

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The munda cor meum is a prayer that precedes the Gospel in Holy Mass in the Roman rite . It is one of the quietly spoken private prayers and is prayed by the priest before he recites the gospel; the intention of the prayer is to render this service worthy despite one's own wrongdoing.

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Latin German

Munda cor meum ac labia mea, omnipotens Deus, qui labia Isaiae Prophetae calculo mundasti ignito: ita me tua grata miseratione dignare mundare, ut sanctum Evangelium tuum digne valeam nuntiare. Per Christum, Dominum nostrum. Amen.

Purify my heart and lips, almighty God, as you have purified the lips of the prophet Isaiah with a glowing stone, so purify me in your gracious mercy, so that I may preach your holy gospel worthily. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

The prayer relates to the calling story of the prophet Isaiah :

5  So I said, Woe to me, for I am lost. For I am a man with unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people with unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. 6  One of the seraphim flew to me and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7  He touched my mouth with it and said, Behold, this has touched your lips, and your guilt is gone and your sins atoned for. ( Jes 6  EU )

use

The munda cor meum in the Ordo Missae immediately follows the graduals and alleluia or tract and, if applicable, the sequence that the celebrant used to recite and which are recited today by the lecturer and the choral schola . In masses in which the celebrant himself reads or sings the Gospel, he prays the munda cor meum - until the liturgical reform after the Second Vatican Council, he bows deeply in front of the center of the altar. In the Levite Office, on the other hand, the preaching of the gospel came to the deacon . This spoke the munda cor meum kneeling on the epistle side of the altar. Then came the request for the blessing to preach the Gospel and the Gospel procession. During the performance of the prayer, an altar boy usually transferred the missal from the epistle to the gospel side of the altar and the choir ended the chanting of Alleluia or Tractus. In today's mass with the deacon , the deacon continues to ask the celebrant to bless, but without a previous munda cor meum .

The munda cor meum has been known as part of the ordo missae since the 11th century . However, it was not in use everywhere in the 16th century; It has never been included in some of the religious rites .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anselm Schott The Missal of the Holy Church. Revised by Benedictines of the Beuron Archabbey. Herder Freiburg, 1956, p. 388
  2. ^ Basic order of the Roman Missal. Preliminary publication for the German Missile Book (3rd edition) (GORM, 2007), No. 132. [1]
  3. ^ Josef Andreas Jungmann Missarum Sollemnia. A genetic explanation of the Roman mass. First volume. Herder, 5th ed. 1962, pp. 582/583