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  • It also looks forward to the Resurrection (“… resurrectionis suae gratiam largiatur”) showing how this day forms the heart and center of the Easter celebrations.

    Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers 2009

  • Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui in electis prophetis mirabilis prædicaris: præsta, quæsumus; ut, sicut Eliæ spiritum in Propheta tuo Eliseo duplicasti, ita in nobis Spiritus Sancti gratiam, ad virtutum opera exercenda, multiplicare digneris.

    Ss Petri & Pauli John 2009

  • Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui in electis prophetis mirabilis prædicaris: præsta, quæsumus; ut, sicut Eliæ spiritum in Propheta tuo Eliseo duplicasti, ita in nobis Spiritus Sancti gratiam, ad virtutum opera exercenda, multiplicare digneris.

    In festo S Elisei, Prophetæ et Patri nostri John 2009

  • Pro pretiosa, Domine, tuorum morte Sanctorum sacrificium istud offerimus: quo opem tuam nostris temporibus clementer impendas, et gratiam nobis veræ devotionis exhibeas.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Which belike makes our Venetian ladies at this day to counterfeit yellow hair so much, great women to calamistrate and curl it up, vibrantes ad gratiam crines, et tot orbibus in captivitatem flexos, to adorn their heads with spangles, pearls, and made-flowers; and all courtiers to effect a pleasing grace in this kind.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • What more sorrowful can be said? they are miserable in this life, mad, beasts, led like [1901] oxen to the slaughter: and that which is worse, whoremasters and drunkards shall be judged, amittunt gratiam, saith Austin, perdunt gloriam, incurrunt damnationem aeternam.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vestium splendore et elegantia ambitione incessus, donis, cantilenis, &c. gratiam adipisci.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Intelligo pecuniam rem esse jucundissimam, meam tamen libentius darem Cliniae quam ab aliis acciperem; libentius huic servirem, quam aliis imperarem, &c. Noctem et somnum accuso, quod illum non videam, luci autem et soli gratiam habeo quod mihi

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Simoniacus enim (quod cum Leone dicam) gratiam non accepit, si non accipit, non habet, et si non habet, nec gratus potest esse; tantum enim absunt istorum nonnulli, qui ad clavum sedent

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Penelopes, nebulones, Alcinoique, modo tot annos in academia insumpserint, et se pro togatis venditarint; lucri causa, et amicorum intercessu praesentantur; addo etiam et magnificis nonnunquam elogiis morum et scientiae; et jam valedicturi testimonialibus hisce litteris, amplissime conscriptis in eorum gratiam honorantur, abiis, qui fidei suae et existimationis jacturam proculdubio faciunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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