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The Lord Jesus, the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread, and giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye and eat, this is My Body which shall be delivered for you; this do for the commemoration of Me. In like manner also the chalice.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Ordinations - Imprimatur May 4, 1942 (?)

I'm not sure whether this is for real:

It is said to be from the book Ordinations, Imprimatur May 4, 1942 by Samuel A. Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago and Impri Potest by Charles Michel X.V.D., Provincial, May 4, 1942.

I found it here, on a website associated with a man that believes himself to be Pope Michael I. On the other hand, the same book appears to be referenced without comment here, on a website associated with a man who believes himself to be Pope Pius XIII. It seems unlikely that the latter website, being so traditional, would make use of a book that contained such an egregious error. It may be that the second website has the whole booklet online, in which case the page must be taken from some other book, because nothing on the second website looks anything like the mistranslation displayed above. In fact, on a separate page, the latter does have a translation of the traditional Mass, with the words translated correctly.

Odd, that I would run into two online antipopes in rapid succession, when tracking down one little factoid. I wonder where the above page is really from.

[St. Hippolytus of Rome, in charity please pray for these two men and for all who through desperation or excessive zeal separate themselves from the one Church founded by Christ].

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