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  • Mass in robust, hieratic English, with full choir propers, ad orientem, using the Roman Canon, with the threefold Domine non sum dignus ...

    Cardinal DiNardo, the Book of Divine Worship, and Thoughts on Hieratic English in the Liturgy 2009

  • The Celebrant holding the Sacrament over the paten divides it, puts one particle in the chalice .... then striking his breast, he repeats three times Domine non sum dignus and Corpus Domini nostri at the communion; he then takes another piece of the consecrated particle, with the wine of the chalice, omitting the other prayers.

    More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel 2009

  • Then he will present the Host to the faithful for communion, supplicating Domine non sum dignus, and bowed he will himself communicate first.

    Archive 2008-08-01 papabear 2008

  • Dómine, non sum dignus ut intres sub tectum meum: sed tantum dic verbo, et sanábitur anima mea.

    Easter cake. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Then he will present the Host to the faithful for communion, supplicating Domine non sum dignus, and bowed he will himself communicate first.

    Archive 2008-08-03 papabear 2008

  • Magnificent, he was tanto dignus imperio, worthy of that great empire.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • How far this argument will avail as a reason for her thus calling on the tomb to ope its ponderous and marble jaws, must be left to the candour of the public, though we cannot help remarking, that the observation of Horace on the dignus vindice nodus, will not bear her out in the present difficulty.

    Haunted Britain in the 1970s 2005

  • Speaking of the ideal drama, Horace says: "nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus."

    Haunted Britain in the 1970s 2005

  • Ablue corpus et cape regis animum, et in eam fortunam qua dignus es continentiam istam profer.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ille profitetur mille coronatus, cum nec decem mercatur; alius e diverso mille dignus, vix decem consequi potest.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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