Wednesday Reflections: The Roman Canon
Welcome to our first series of Wednesday Reflections by Fr. Gabriel Mosher! These last few months, Fr. Gabriel has worked through the oldest Eucharistic prayer in the Roman Catholic Rite, the Roman Canon.
Please note that the dates of publishing have been altered for your reading convenience.
Introducing: Wednesday Reflections
Giovanni d’Andrea (ca. 1270-1348), Circa lecturam arboris diversis olim diversum modum tenentibus (Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1483).
The Roman Canon
Excerpt from an unidentified psalm, with David featured in the illustrated “D”.
Stammheim Missal, created around 1170, artist unknown.
The Commemoration of the Living
Missal, between 1389 and 1404. Master of the Brussels Initials (Italian, active about 1389 - 1410), Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, "The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew"
Communicantes
Saints and Angels in Adoration, Woodcut from the Latin-English Requiem Missal
The Hanc Igitur
Priest saying the mass in the Sherborne Missal, the largest (and most lavishly decorated) Medieval Missal
from England to have survived the Reformation.
The Qui Pridie
A single-sheet print in the form of a triptych. In the center, the text of the Last Supper
(probably in incunabulum print), to the left and right, a colored woodcut each. Circa 1500. Learn more here.
Reflections on the Recent Actions of the SSPX
St Catherine, our blessed patroness, who famously prevented schism by begging Popes Gregory XI and Urban VI to return to Rome from Avignon in France. St. Catherine, pray for us!
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