Introibo

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English

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin introībō ad altāre Deī (“I shall go in towards the altar of God”), the first line spoken.

Pronunciation

Noun

Introibo (plural not attested)

  1. (Roman Catholicism) The prayers spoken by the priest at the foot of the altar at the start of a Tridentine Mass.
    • 1959, Henri Béchard, The Visions of Bernard Francis de Hoyos, S.J.: Apostle of the Sacred Heart in Spain, a Biography, page 72:
      At the Introibo he noticed at his right, as usual, his guardian angel, who acted as the angel mentioned by St. John in the Apocalypse, standing before the altar and bearing a golden censer.
    • 1964, John William Corrington, The Anatomy of Love and Other Poems, page 9:
      In place of the humble but hopeful supplication of the Introibo, we have the narcissistic, desperate anguish of 1, punctuated by a blues refrain in the key of death and loss, drunkenness, violence, and sexuality.
    • 1994, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void, page 273:
      As imposing and plump as Buck Mulligan standing on top of a spiral stairway whilst intoning an “Introibo”, his slowly magnifying body brings to mind a purplish balloon, of a sort that you might buy for your child in Parc Montsouris.
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