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  • ( "Novus Ordo") do not assume the celebration versus populum, but the celebration versus orientem (improperly and theologically incorrectly: "celebration with the back to the people") when they say that the priest at the Orate, Fratres, at the Pax Domini, the Ecce Angus Dei and the ritus conclusionis turns to the people.

    Celebration Versus Deum Still Applicable Law 2009

  • Article 1 says, "sunt enim duo USUS unici ritus romani."

    URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion 2009

  • "Hae duae expressiones “legis orandi” Ecclesiae, minime vero inducent in divisionem “legis credendi” Ecclesiae; sunt enim duo usus unici ritus romani."

    A NEW BIRITUAL MONASTERY Traditional Mass in Norcia, Italy 2009

  • Article 1 says, "sunt enim duo USUS unici ritus romani."

    URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion 2009

  • “Per tales artes et ritus impios et invocationes et demonum, nullus unquam sequatur effectus ministerio demonum, error.” — “It is an error to believe, that these magic arts and invocations of the devils are without effect.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to [6604] worship by all means the gods of the place, et unumquemque, Topicum deum sic coli oportere, quomodo ipse praeceperit: which Cecilius in [6605] Minutius labours, and would have every nation sacrorum ritus gentiles habere et deos colere municipes, keep their own ceremonies, worship their peculiar gods, which Pomponius Mela reports of the

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The word rite is from Latin ritus 'ceremony,' which has nothing to do with rectus 'straight.'

    languagehat.com: GETTING RITE RIGHT. 2005

  • Iste populus non est multum tempus transactum, quin fuit totus in fidei religione, sed nunc est ad pessimos Gentilium ritus peruersus, nec attendit, nec veneratur relliquias sancti corporis Apostoli ibidem contentas, quamuis ijs euidens, ac vtile, et mirificum præstare solebat beneficium, quod infra narrabo.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Omnes quidem, terrarum, regionum et insularum homines, qui isti Greco obediunt Imperatori sunt Christiani, et baptizati, tamen variant singuli in aliquo articulo fidem suam a nostra vera fide Catholica, et diuersificant in multis suos ritus à ritibus Romanæ Ecclesiæ, quia iamdiu omiserunt obedire Pontifici

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Primò ergo describo vobis ritus communes omnes Idolatrarum: et postea istorum Iugurum; qui sunt quasi secta diuisa ab alijs.

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

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