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The embolism in Christian Liturgy (from Greek ἐμβολισμός, an interpolation) is a short prayer said or sung after the Lord's Prayer. It functions "like a marginal gloss" upon the final petition of the Lord's Prayer (". . . deliver us from evil"), amplifying and elaborating on "the many implications" of that prayer.[1] In the Roman Rite of Mass, the embolism is followed by the doxology or, in the Tridentine Mass (which does not have that doxology), by the Fraction.[2]
According to the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, "[t]he embolism may date back to the first centuries, since, under various forms, it is found in all the Occidental and in a great many Oriental, particularly Syrian, Liturgies."[3]
In the Mass of the Roman Rite, as revised in 1969, the priest celebrant says or sings:[4]
The English translation is:
A less literal English translation was used before 2011:
In the Tridentine form of the Roman Missal the embolism, said inaudibly by the priest except for the final phrase, "Per omnia sæcula sæculorum", is:
One translation of this is:
Speaking of the Roman Rite embolism in its then-current form, the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia said: "The Roman Church connects with it a petition for peace in which she inserts the names of the Mother of God, Sts. Peter and Paul, and St. Andrew. The name of St. Andrew is found in the Gelasian Sacramentary, so that its insertion in the Embolismus would seem to have been anterior to the time of St. Gregory. During the Middle Ages the provincial churches and religious orders added the names of other saints, their founders, patrons, etc., according to the discretion of the celebrant."[3]
The embolism is not used in the Greek Liturgies of St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom.[3][9] In the Liturgy of St. James the English translation of the embolism is as follows:
In the Mozarabic Rite this prayer is recited not only in the Mass, but also after the Our Father at Lauds and Vespers.[3]
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