Rerum Crerator Optime The hymn for Matins of Wednesday in the Divine Office. It comprises four strophes of four iambic dimeters rhymed in couplets, e.g. Rerum Creator optime, Rectorque noster aspice: Nos a quiete noxia Mersos sopore libera. Its ascription to St. Ambrose is not sanctioned by the most recent authorities. Mone cites it as … Continue reading “Rerum Crerator Optime”
Rerum Creator optime
Rerum Creator optime Hymn for Wednesday at Matins; attributed to Pope Saint Gregory the Great. It has 13 translations. The English title given is by Cardinal Newman. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Rereward
Rereward (Josh. 6:9), the troops in the rear of an army on the march, the rear-guard. This word is a corruption of the French arriere-garde. During the wilderness march the tribe of Dan formed the rear-guard (Num. 10:25; comp. 1 Sam. 29:2; Isa. 52:12; 58:8). Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary Rereward rerword. See REARWARD. Fuente: International … Continue reading “Rereward”
Reredos
reredos Screen of stone or wood at the back of the altar, usually ornamented with panels, niches, statues, buttresses, and other decorations and often painted in brilliant colors. The side which faces the nave is called the “retable” and the other side, the “counter-retable.” It sometimes extends across the whole breadth of the church and … Continue reading “Reredos”
Requite
Requite “a requital, recompence” (akin to ameibomai, “to repay,” not found in the NT), is used with the verb apodidomi, “to render,” in 1Ti 5:4, and translated “to requite.” This use is illustrated in the papyri by way of making a return, conferring a benefaction in return for something (Moulton and Milligan). Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary … Continue reading “Requite”
REQUIREMENTS, DIVINE
REQUIREMENTS, DIVINE (1) General References to Deu 10:12; Mic 6:8; Zec 7:9; Zec 8:16; Mat 19:17 –SEE True Religion, RELIGION, TRUE (2) Spiritual Necessities emphasized by Christ Inward Righteousness Mat 5:20 A Childlike Spirit Mat 18:3 Repentance Luk 13:2; Luk 13:3 The New Birth Joh 3:5; Joh 4:24; Joh 6:53; Joh 8:24; Act 4:12; Heb … Continue reading “REQUIREMENTS, DIVINE”
Require
Require re-kwr: Require meant originally seek after, whence ask, and so (as in modern English) demand. All meanings are common in the King James Version (e.g. 1Sa 21:8; Ecc 3:15; Ezr 8:22; 1Co 4:2), and the Revised Version (British and American) has made little change. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Require “to seek, seek after,” … Continue reading “Require”
Requiem, Masses of
Requiem, Masses of Masses of Requiem will be treated under the following heads: I. Origins; II. Formulary; III. Colour of the Vestments; IV. Conditions for celebrating; V. Rite; VI. Solemn Funeral Mass; VII. Mass in Commemoration of All the Dead; VIII. Mass Post Acceptum Mortis Nuncium; IX. Masses of the Third, Seventh, and Thirtieth Days, … Continue reading “Requiem, Masses of”
requiem, Mass of
requiem, Mass of (Latin: rest) Mass celebrated for the dead, deriving its name front the first word of the Introit. It is also called Black Mass, from the color of the vestments used. It differs from other Masses by the omission of the Psalm “Judica Die” at the beginning, and of the Gloria Patri and … Continue reading “requiem, Mass of”
Requiem
Requiem a musical mass for the dead in the Church of Rome. so called from the words of the Introit, Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, Give them eternal rest, O Lord, etc. (2Es 2:34-35); and the antiphon for the psalms in place of the Gloria Patri Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature