¹ One of the most notable of these scholars was, until his death in 1994, Edward Kilmartin, J., One, S.J. would find it difficult to overestimate the impact of his research on the area of liturgical studies, or the loss felt by his former students and colleagues since his death. It is to his memory that this article is dedicated.Google Scholar

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² There is a growing body of literature on the problem of liturgical inculturation. Some of the best work, for example, Anscar Chupungco, O.S.B., Cultural Adaptation of the Liturgy (Mahwah, N. J., 1982), examines the issue from a historical perspective, using examples from key moments in Christian history (and the liturgical changes emerging from them) to shed light on the contemporary problems in the relationship between liturgy and culture. See also idem, Worship: Beyond Inculturation (Washington, D. C., 1994). The movement of Christian belief and worship from the cultural world of antiquity to the cultural world of northern Europe is one crucial instance of a “true ‘global’ paradigm change” (Kenan Osborne, O.F.M., “Eucharistic Theology Today,” in The Eucharist, vol. 3: Alternative Futures for Worship [Collegeville, Minn., 1987], 105). See also Pierre-Marie Gy, O.P., “The Inculturation of the Christian Liturgy in the West,” Studia Liturgica 20 (1990): 8–18 (the entire volume deals with the issue of liturgical inculturation, the topic of the 1989 Congress of the Societas Liturgica); and Joanne Pierce, M., “Early Medieval Liturgy: Some Implications for Contemporary Liturgical Practice,” Worship 65 (1991): 509–22.Google Scholar

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¹¹ For a more complete discussion, see Joanne Pierce, “New Research Directions in Medieval Liturgy: The Liturgical Books of Sigebert of Minden (1022–1036),” in Fountain of Life, ed. Gerard Austin, O.P. (Washington, D. C., 1991), 51–67. The original manuscript, Codex Helmstadiensis 1151, is in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. The eucharistic section was edited in 1557 by Matthias Flacius Illyricus; the ordo missae became known as the Missa Illyrica. This edition can most easily be found in Martène, Ordo 4, cols. 489–528; see also PL 138: 1301–36, although this version should be used with some caution. For a new edition of the entire manuscript, see Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” which is presently being revised for publication. For the sources of the Martène edition, see Aimé-Georges Martimort, La documentation liturgique de Dom Edmond Martène. Étude codicologique, ST 279 (Vatican City, 1978); and idem, “Additions et corrections à La documentation liturgique de Dom Edmond Martène,” Ecclesia Orans 3 (1986): 81–105. See also Harmut Hoffmann, Buchkunst und Königtum im ottonischen und frühsalischen Reich, MGH Schriften, vol. 30.1 (Stuttgart, 1986), 91, 374–76, 398; and Wolfgang Milde, “Die Handschriften des Bischofs Sigebert von Minden,” in Lectionarium: Berlin, Ehem. Preussische Staatsbibliothek, Ms. theol. lat. qu. 1 (z. Zt. Krakow, Biblioteka Jagiellónska, Depositum), ed. Martin Klöckener, Codices illuminati medii aevi, 18 (Munich, 1993), 7–25.Google Scholar

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¹³ For this reason, the search for parallels to the Minden texts will be limited to several manuscripts antedating the twelfth century.Google Scholar

¹⁴ Blessings addressed to the three Persons of the Trinity (Pater/Deus … Filius, Sanctus Spiritus) will be omitted, primarily for space considerations.Google Scholar

¹⁵ Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” no. 77; Martène, col. 501. The original spelling and punctuation used in the manuscript will be retained here.Google Scholar

¹⁶ At this point in the manuscript (and elsewhere, for example, the vesting rite before Mass), the rubrics refer explicitly to the episcopus, or bishop. The more general term most often used in the manuscript, sacerdos, could refer to the bishop himself or (more usually by the eleventh century) to a priest of the cathedral who might be using its liturgical books. See Pierre-Marie Gy, O.P., “Notes on the Early Terminology of the Christian Priesthood,” in The Sacrament of Holy Orders, ed. Bernard Botte et al. (Collegeville, Minn., 1962), 98–115, esp. 107 and 115. See also Pierce, “Vesting Prayers,” 83, n. 11, and 87.Google Scholar

¹⁷ Or perhaps to recite as many as time would permit. Fernand Cabrol seems to assume that every prayer text would indeed be recited; he estimates that the celebration of this formal, pontifical ordo missae would have lasted from cockcrow to noon. See Cabrol, “La messe latine de Flacius Illyricus,” RB 22 (1905), 153. This seems unlikely; even though this ordo missae is designed for large celebrations involving the bishop and clergy of the diocese of Minden, the time required in using the complete ordo seems excessive. The alia directive should be interpreted as meaning “another,” implying a choice within a series, not “next” in the sense of required steps; see Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” 449–50, and “Vesting Prayers,” 84, n. 12.Google Scholar

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¹⁹ It is found in the Gregorian sacramentary, listed as GrD 2077, a post-communion prayer for a Missa Sacerdotis. It is also found in the tenth-century sacramentary of Fulda, and is connected with the final kiss of the altar in several of the Frankish or Germanic ordines missae from the ninth century on, including Amiens (Leroquais, 444, “Expleto offitio sanctum osculetur altare dicens”) and the early eleventh-century ordo missae of Reichenau; see Bragança, no. 60. In other ordines, it is still placed among the prayers after the mass; examples include: the ordo missae of Warmund of Ivrea, ca. 1000 (Baroffio and Dell’Oro, no. w, 50); the eleventh-century ritual-votive missal of Hamburg (Rasmussen, no. 24); and the eleventh-century pontifical of Hugh of Salins (Lemarié, no. 85). It is also found in an Italian (possibly Monte Cassino) ordo missae of the eleventh or early twelfth century (Salmon, 202), and it appears in several contemporary ordines missae reprinted by Martène: a mid-eleventh-century ordo from Saint-Denis (Martène, Ordo 5, col. 528); the tenth-century sacramentary of Ratoldus of Corbie (ibid., Ordo 11, col. 568); the mid-eleventh-century pontifical of Salzburg-Séez (ibid., Ordo 13, col. 579); and the eleventh-century ordo from Stavelot (ibid., Ordo 15, col. 594). Here, see also Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” 255, no. 197, and 427–28, no. 197.Google Scholar

²⁰ “Placeat tibi, sancta Trinitas, obsequium servitutis meae: et praesta; ut sacrificium, quod oculis tuae maiestatis indignus obtuli, tibi sit acceptabile, mihique et omnibus, pro quibus illud obtuli, sit, te miserante, propitiabile. Per Christum, Dominum nostrum. Amen.” Text taken from Bernard Botte, O.S.B. and Christine Mohrmann, L'Ordinaire de la Messe (Paris and Louvain, 1953), 92.Google Scholar

²¹ MRR 2:437–38.Google Scholar

²² For a more detailed discussion, see Joseph Jungmann, “The Defeat of Teutonic Arianism and the Revolution in Religious Culture in the Early Middle Ages,” in Pastoral Liturgy (New York, 1962), 1–101, esp. 23–38.Google Scholar

²³ MRR 1:80.Google Scholar

²⁴ Ibid.Google Scholar

²⁵ Ibid., 78.Google Scholar

²⁶ Ibid., 80.Google Scholar

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³⁰ Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” no. 32; Martène, col. 493.Google Scholar

³¹ At Ivrea (Baroffio and Dell’Oro, no. 8). It is also found in an eleventh-century libellus precum from an Irish monastery in Rome (Salmon, “Libelli precum” [n. 8 above], 166, no. 414); see the commentary on the prayer Dominator Domine Deus, below. It is also found at Salins (Lemarié, no. 20), as well as Saint-Denis (Martène, col. 521), Stavelot (ibid., col. 587–88), and two other ordines in the same section: the mid-eleventh century missal of Troyes (ibid., Ordo 6, col. 530); and an eleventh-century text from San Vincenzo al Volturno (ibid., Ordo 12, col. 570). See Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” 317 and 163 (critical apparatus for no. 32).Google Scholar

³² That of Hugh of Salins (Lemarié, no. 20).Google Scholar

³³ See André Wilmart, Auteurs spirituels et textes dévots du môyen–âge (Paris, 1932; reprint 1971), 102.Google Scholar

³⁴ Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” 316, 332–33; see also MRR 1: 298–300.Google Scholar

³⁵ Other characteristics (which appear in other prayers included in the Minden ordo missae) include: reference to the altar; confession before ministerial assistants; the request for the intercession of the Church and/or individually-named saints; and, at times, an actual list of specific sins. See MRR 1:300–301. For further close textual analysis, see Joaquim Bragança, “A apologia ‘Suscipe confessionem meam,’ ” Didaskalia 1 (1971): 319–34.Google Scholar

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³⁸ See Paul Tirot, “Les prières d'offertoire du VIIe au XVIe siècle,” EL 98 (1984): 148–97, esp. 162.Google Scholar

³⁹ MRR 2:109.Google Scholar

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⁴¹ Ibid., 46 n. 20. See also Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” 368–71. For more on the Hanc igitur, see n. 81 below.Google Scholar

⁴² Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” no. 115; Martène, col. 508. See also Salins (Lemarié, no. 41), Troyes (Martène, col. 532), and Stavelot (ibid., col. 590).Google Scholar

⁴³ Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” no. 122; Martène, col. 509. See also GrD 3122, 4392; Amiens (Leroquais, 441); Reichenau (Bragança, no. 33); Ivrea (Baroffio and Dell’Oro, no. 30); Salins (Lemarié, no. 51); Saint-Denis (Martène, col. 524); Troyes (ibid., col. 533); Salzburg-Séez (ibid., col. 577); Stavelot (ibid., cols. 590–91); and an early eleventh-century text from Tours (ibid., Ordo 7, col. 536). It can also be found in the tenth-century ordo missae from Nonantola (Salmon, 199); and the Italian (Monte Cassino) ordo (ibid., 201). The citations from Salmon must be used with care for these highly variable texts, since he lists the contents of these manuscripts by incipit only. The later, stable form of the prayer can be found in Botte and Mohrmann, L’Ordinaire, 72. The text reads: Suscipe, sancta Trinitas, hanc oblationem, quam tibi offerimus ob memoriam passionis, resurrectionis et ascensionis Iesu Christi Domini nostri; et in honorem beatae Mariae semper Virginis, et beati Ioannis Baptistae, et sanctorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli, et istorum et omnium Sanctorum: ut illis proficiat ad honorem, nobis autem ad salutem: et illi pro nobis intercedere dignentur in caelis, quorum memoriam agimus in terris. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.Google Scholar

⁴⁴ “Unde et memores sumus domine nos tui serui sed et plebs tua sancta christi filii tui domine dei nostri tam beatae passionis necnon et ab inferis resurrectionis sed et in caelos gloriosae ascensionis offerimus praeclarae maiestati tuae de tuis donis ac datis hostiam puram hostiam sanctam hostiam immaculatam panem sanctum uitae aeternae et CALICEM SALUTIS PERPETUAE [emphasis in edition].” See Botte, 40.Google Scholar

⁴⁵ Botte and Mohrmann, L’Ordinaire, 80–82.Google Scholar

⁴⁶ “Communicantes et memoriam uenerantes in primis gloriosae semper uirginis mariae genetricis dei et domini nostri iesu christi sed et beatorum apostolorum ac martyrum tuorum petri pauli andreae iacobi iohannis thomae iacobi philippi bartholomaei matthaei simonis et thaddaei lini cleti clementis xysti cornelii cypriani laurentii chrysogoni iohannis et pauli cosmae et damiani et omnium sanctorum tuorum quorum meritis precibusque concedas ut in omnibus protectionis tuae muniamur auxilio per christum dominum nostrum.” Cited in Botte, 34–36.Google Scholar

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⁵⁰ It is found in some manuscripts of the Gregorian sacramentary (GrD 3124, 4394), and is widely attested in the ordines missae of the ninth through eleventh centuries. It appears first in the ordo missae of Amiens (Leroquais, 442: Memoria Sacerdotis), and later in Reichenau (Bragança, no. 39), Ivrea (Baroffio and Dell’Oro, no. 31), and Salins (Lemarié, no. 55). The text is also found in Saint-Denis (Martène, col. 525) and Stavelot (ibid., col. 590). Note also the incipit cited in Nonantola (Salmon, 199). See Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” 377–78, and no. 124.Google Scholar

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⁵² According to the Vulgate text and numbering, the first is Ps 50:11 (averte faciem tuam), the second, Ps 27:2 (Exaudi Domine vocem), the third, (the final couplet), Ps 101:2 (Domine exaudi). Earlier versions of the prayer also close with certain psalm verses, but the texts are different, emphasizing sacrificial or eucharistic themes, e.g. the chalice of salvation (Ps 115:12–13). See Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” 377.Google Scholar

⁵³ It does appear in Reichenau (Bragança, no. 35).Google Scholar

⁵⁴ Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” no. 42 (Indulgentiam et remissionem); Martène, col. 495, where it is mistakenly reproduced as the incipit line of a separate prayer.Google Scholar

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⁶¹ A stock phrase: see Ernest Kantorowicz, Laudes Regiae. A Study in Liturgical Acclamations and Medieval Ruler Worship (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1958), 99, n. 119.Google Scholar

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⁶⁴ Pierce, “Sacerdotal Spirituality,” no. 130; Martène, col. 510. Note also the incipit, “Oratio pro statu s. Ecclesiae et pro omnibus vivis quibus debitores sumus,” in the Nonantola ordo (Salmon, 199).Google Scholar

⁶⁵ “Te igitur clementissime pater per iesum christum filium tuum dominum nostrum supplices rogamus et petimus uti accepta habeas et benedicas haec dona haec munera haec sancta sacrificia inlibata in primis quae tibi offerimus pro ecclesia tua sancta catholica quam pacificare custodire adunare et regere digneris toto orbe terrarum una cum famulo tuo papa nostro illo” (Botte, 32).Google Scholar

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⁷⁶ For example, the bride on her wedding day, or the bishop at his consecration (MRR 2:181–82). The prayer appears to have been “reworked” and cast into a standard form about the time of Pope Gregory the Great (V. Kennedy, L., “The pre-Gregorian Hanc Igitur,” EL 50 [1936]: 349–58).Google Scholar

⁷⁷ “Hanc igitur oblationem seruitutis nostrae sed et cunctae familiae tuae quaesumus domine ut placatus accipias diesque nostros in tua pace disponas atque ab aeterna damnatione nos eripi et in electorum tuorum iubeas grege numerari per christum dominum nostrum” (Botte, 36).Google Scholar

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⁹⁵ See, for example, Catherine LaCugna, God For Us: The Trinity and Christian Life (New York, 1991), 112–27, and Jungmann, “The Defeat of Teutonic Arianism” (n. 22 above), esp. 23–58, on the medieval west.Google Scholar

⁹⁶ As Jungmann notes, “The triune God is the receiver of our prayer and of our sacrifice, the Son no less than the Father, which is also expressed by the address being directed now to the Father, now to the Son, or remaining indifferent” (The Place of Christ, 102).Google Scholar