“Domine Salvum Fac”. The Prayer To Be Chanted At The Main Traditional Mass On Sundays For The Sovereign.

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”.

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“Domine salvum fac”.

The Prayer for the Sovereign (currently King Charles III) 

to be Chanted on Sundays at the end of the main 

Traditional Latin Mass.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Versicle:    Domine, salvum fac Regem nostrum N. 

(Where N = the name of the Sovereign).

Response:    Et exaudi nos in die, qua invocaverimus te.

Versicle:    Domine, exaudi orationem meam.

Response:    Et clamor meus ad te veniat.

Versicle:    Dominus vobiscum.

Response:    Et cum spiritu tuo.

Oremus.

Quaesumus omnipotens Deus, ut famulus tuus N. Rex/Regina noster, qui tua miseratione suscepit regni gubernacula, virtutum etiam omnium percipiat incrementa; quibus decenter ornatus, et vitiorum monstra devitare (in time of War: Hostes superare,) et ad te qui via, veritas, et vita es, cum Regina consorte et prole regia gratiosus valeat pervenire.

Per Christum Dominum nostrum.

Amen.

Versicle:    O Lord, save our King/Queen N.

Response:    And hear us iin the day we call upon Thee.

Versicle:    Lord, hear my Prayer.

Response:    And let my cry come unto Thee.

Versicle: The Lord be with you.

Response: And with thy Spirit.

Let us Pray.

We beseech Thee, Almighty God, that Thy servant N. our King/Queen, who has been called by Thy mercy to rule over this Kingdom, may also receive from Thee an increase of all virtues. Fittingly adorned with these, may he/she be able to shun all evildoing (in time of War: To conquer his/her enemies,) and, finally, being well pleasing before Thee, together with the Queen/Consort and the Royal Family, attain unto Thee Who art the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Through Christ Our Lord.

Amen.

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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.