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  • Alcuin he is expressly called antistes and episcopus, and an Irish account of a synod at Birra names him "Egbert Bishop", whilst the term sacerdos used by the Venerable Bede, is sometimes applied by him to bishops.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • As the word sacerdos was applicable to both bishops and priests, and one became a presbyter only by sacerdotal ordination, the word presbyter soon lost its primitive meaning of "ancient" and was applied only to the minister of worship and of the sacrifice (hence our priest).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Sospiri, a choir specialising in liturgical music, will lead the singing of the office in Gregorian chant and will sing the Ecce sacerdos magnus and the Magnificat to settings by the great Spanish composer, Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611).

    George Cardinal Pell to Visit Oxford, Sung Vespers at Merton, Mass at the Oxford Oratory 2009

  • By kind permission of the chaplain of Merton College, Vespers was celebrated in the college chapel and sung by the choir, Sospiri, who performed Victoria's 'Ecce sacerdos magnus' and the Magnificat, and led in the singing of the psalms.

    Cardinal Pell in Oxford 2009

  • "Item si aliquam itta infirmari contigerit quod ad locum consuetum communioni uenire non possit. si oporteat eam communicari: sacerdos ... corpus chrisi deferens. reuerenter precedentibus eum duabus sororibus cum cereis, et una cum aqua benedicta. et alia campanellam deferente: associantibus nihilominus aliqubus de maturioribus sororibus ad infirmariam uadat. et infirmam communicet. prout in ordinario continetur."

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Si autem aliqua soror infirmatur in tantum. quod eam inungi oporteat. tunc sacerdos ... oleum sacre unccionis deferat; et una sorore crucem portante. precedentibus duabus cum cereis. ad infirmariam uadat. et totus conuenteus eum processionaliter antecedat.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Intrans autem sacerdos infirmariam dicat pax huix domui. et cetera fiant sicut notatum est in ordinario: ita tamen quod abstersiones cum stupis fiant vel a priorissa. uel ab aliqua sorore. cui iniunxerit.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

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    Ecce sacerdos Catholic Mom of 10 2009

  • The Missa ‘Sur tous regretz’ may, as has been said, have been written in 1530, and the Missa ‘Quam pulchra es’ may have been composed for Pope Clement VII; the antiphon Ecce sacerdos magnus is joined to the final Agnus as a remarkable cantus firmus in which each phrase of the chant is directly repeated in halved note values.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • "Tu es sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech"

    Silver Jubilee 2009

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