Saint Dominic Missal: Latin ­– English

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St. Dominic's feast: pp. 1051-1054 (PDF pp. 1075-1078)St. Francis of Assisi's special preface: p. 659 (PDF p. 683):> No. 16. PREFACE OF OUR HOLY FATHER ST. FRANCIS> It is truly fitting and just, right and salutary, that we should always and in all places give thanks to You, O holy Lord, Father almighty, eternal God. Who, by Your most high goodness and mercy, O God, through the merits and virtues of Your saints, have exalted Your servant the blessed Francis as a Confessor for our veneration. Whose mind, by the working of the Holy Spirit, inwardly enkindled most ardently that seraphic love; and marked his body outwardly with the holy stigmata, the sign of Jesus Christ Our Lord Crucified. Through whom the angels praise Your majesty, the dominations adore it, and the powers are in awe; the heavens and the virtues of heaven and the blessed seraphim celebrate it with united joy. With these we pray You join our voices also, while we say with humble praise: Holy, etc.