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The Johannine Prologue in Latin
(Saint John 1.1-14)
the
Last Gospel Reading
Concluding the Tridentine Mass
Listen to the
Prayer as you read it
(click on the image above)
Have
you ever wondered what prayer the priest utters at the very end of
the Tridentine Latin Mass — often called the “Second Gospel”?
Now you can prayer it
with him in your hearts at the conclusion of the Most Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass.
Listen to the audio
file
below and follow the
very first chapter of the Gospel according to Saint John printed below
— as the priest prays one of the most widely recognized verses in the
Bible. (“h”
is silent in Latin, so we have used a strike-though:
h
to indicate this where the letter
“h”
occurs)
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“In
principio erat
Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat Verbum.
Hoc erat in principio apud Deum. Omnia
per Ipsum facta sunt, et sine Ipso factum est nihil
quod factum est. In Ipso vita erat, et vita erat Lux
hominum. Et Lux in tenebris lucet et tenebrae
eam non comprehenderunt.
Fuit homo missus a Deo cui nomen erat
Iohannes. Hic venit in
testimonium ut testimonium perhiberet de
lumine ut omnes crederent per Illum. Non erat ille lux,
sed ut testimonium perhiberet de lumine.
Erat lux vera quae illuminat omnem hominem
venientem in hunc mundum. In mundo erat, et mundus per ipsum
factus est, et mundus eum non cognovit.
In propria venit et sui eum non receperunt. Quotquot autem
receperunt eum dedit eis potestatem filios Dei, fieri
his qui credunt in nomine Eius. Qui non
ex sanguinibus, neque ex voluntate carnis, neque ex voluntate
viri, sed ex Deo nati sunt.
(All kneel at the following)
Et Verbum caro factum est
et habitavit in nobis
et vidimus gloriam Eius, gloriam
quasi unigeniti a Patre, plenum gratiae et veritatis.”
Deo
gratias.
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“In
the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things
were made by Him: and without Him was made nothing that
was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of
men. And the Light shineth in darkness, and the darkness
did not comprehend it.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This
man came for a witness, to give testimony of the Light,
that all men might believe through Him. He was not the Light,
but was to give testimony of the Light. That was the true
Light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this
world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him,
and the world knew Him not.
He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But
as many as received Him, He gave them power to be made the
sons of God, to them that believe in His name. Who are born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will
of man, but of God.
(here
all kneel)
and the Word
was made flesh
and dwelt among us
and
we saw His glory, the glory as it were of the Only Begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth.” (St. John 1.1-14)
Thanks be to God.
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Totally
Faithful to the Sacred Deposit of Faith entrusted
to the Holy See in Rome
“Scio
opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum
Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I
know your works ... that you have but little power, and
yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.”
(Apocalypse 3.8)
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