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> My knowledge of Latin liturgy has not been updated since the early
> 1960s
> when I recall that the word Embolism was used for the prayer which
> followed
> the Pater Noster.... "Libera nos, Domine, quaesumus, ab omnibus
> malis....
> etc." So I am not familiar with the term as applied to something
> inserted
> into the Prefatio.
Respondeo:
No more am I, but it is the term employed by Ward and Johnson, and
serves well enough. As to the embolism more usually so-called, that is
the Libera nos, it occurs to me that I am woefully ignorant concerning
the details of its composition and introduction into the Latin Mass.
Neither Jungmann nor Gregory Dix mention it, at least in their indices.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church however says: "...Many
Eastern liturgies have a similar prayer at this point." I did not know
this. Fr Ambrose has supplied us with one from the Assyrian Liturgy;
does anybody know of any others?
Bill.
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