Saturday, May 07, 2011

Should we pray for the Jew, Moslem and Pagan?

The following are two prayers said at the Traditional Good Friday Mass which illustrate we should pray for the conversion of the Jew, Moslem and Pagan: These prayers were taken from the St. Andrew Missal 1945. Here are the prayers:

Let us pray.
Let us kneel.
R. Levate.




Let us pray, also, for the perfidious Jews, that our Lord and God may take away the veil from their hearts, so that they, too, may acknowledge Jesus Christ our Lord. Almighty, eternal God, Who repellest not even Jewish faithlessness from Thy mercy, hearken to our prayers which we make in behalf of the blindness of that people, that, recognizing the light of Thy truth, which is Christ, they may be delivered from their darkness. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Who livest and reignest, with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God
For ever and ever.
R. Amen.
Let us pray, also, for the pagans, that almighty God may remove iniquity from their hearts, so that they may leave their idols and be converted to the living and true God and His only Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and God.

Let us pray.
Let us kneel.
R. Levate.


Variations of these prayers were common upto and including 1965. However, they were eliminated altogether after November 1969 when Paul VI ordered every Catholic Parish in the World to follow the New Modern Mass.