Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. I, 1948 Liturgy

Aperi Domine

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Also known as: Latin: A. D.

APERI DOMINE. - Prayer with which the divine office begins. According to the admonition of Ecclus. (18:23), the soul must prepare itself for prayer; for this reason in the Middle Ages the custom arose of first visiting the altars, or of reciting psalms, etc. In some monasteries one began with the prayer «A. D.», which the priest said upon approaching the altar (2nd century) or also in the canon of the Mass after the Preface, while the choir sang the Sanctus, and finally before beginning Matins. St. Pius V recommended it to all the clergy and placed it at the beginning of the divine office.

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BIBL.: H. Mahieu, Probatio charitatis, Bruges 1914, n. 159; C. Callewaert, in Collationes Brugenses, 22 (1922), p. 269.

Filippo Oppenheim

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 1596.

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Oppenheim, Filippo. “Aperi Domine.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1596. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/aperi-domine.

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Oppenheim, Filippo. “Aperi Domine.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1596. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/aperi-domine.

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@incollection{ec1_aperi_domine,
  author    = {Oppenheim, Filippo},
  title     = {Aperi Domine},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {1596},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/aperi-domine}
}

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