Agnus Dei, Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi.

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Bishop Athanasius Schneider O.R.C.,

celebrating Traditional Latin Mass

in Tallinn, Estonia.

Photo: 10 December 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Marko Tervaportti.

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Agnus Dei, 

Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi,

Miserere Nobis.

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In the Mass of the Roman Rite and also in the Eucharist of the Anglican Communion, the Lutheran Church, and the Western Rite of the Orthodox Church, the Agnus Dei is the invocation to the Lamb of God, sung or recited during the Fraction of the Host. It was a Syrian custom introduced into the Roman Rite Mass by Pope Sergius I (687 A.D. – 701 A.D.).

Based upon John the Baptist's reference, in John 1:29, to Jesus ("Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world"), the text in Latin is: Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.

Which means:

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.