Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Thursday, 17 October 2024

“Domine Salvum Fac”. The Prayer To Be Sung At The Main Mass On Sundays For King Charles III.



Text and Illustrations are from The Society of St. Bede,
which can be found HERE

Prayer for the King, “Pro Rege in Solemnitátibus” from a Jacobite Manuscript of circa 1740.

From an article on the hymn “Adeste Fideles”, on the excellent Hymnology archive, we find that John Francis Wade (Johannes Franciscus Wade, 1710 – 1786) also wrote a “Domine Salvum Fac”.

This has been scanned from a Jacobite manuscript, and was reproduced in Dom John Stephan, “Adeste Fideles” (1947).





This has the “Gloria Patri” that is no longer part of our modern Prayer for the King.

We have produced a modern edition that can be sung for the present King Charles III.

Other settings can be found here and here.

1 comment:

  1. Wonderful, Zephyrinus, to pray for the King and all those in high office (1 Tim. 2:1ff) “ Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.” We must never lose hope that rulers and kings, who are inevitably subject to many base powers of this world, may yet with the assistance of our prayers, humble though they may be, rise above and serve Our Lord Jesus Christ. -Comment by Dante P

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