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(Optional Prefaces)
It is truly right and just, proper and helpful toward
salvation, that we always and everywhere give thanks to you, O Lord, holy
Father, almighty and eternal God, through Christ our Lord; for in Your mercy
and fidelity You promised Him as Savior to the lost human race, to instruct the
ignorant with His truth, justify the wicked with His holiness, and help the
weak by His power. Now that the time
draws near for the coming of Him Whom you are sending and the day of our
liberation is dawning with faith in Your promises, we rejoice with holy
exultation. Therefore with Angels and
Archangels, the Thrones and Dominations, and all the militant hosts of heaven,
we continuously praise Your glory in song, and say: à Sanctus…