Bishop Enoch (@BishopEnoch787)

Preface / Contestatio for a Sunday Mass, in the edited text identified as Missa Dominicalis V, from the Bobbio Missal (600s), a provisional literal translation: https://archive.org/details/bobbiomissalgall0058cath/page/148/mode/1up It is very meet and just, O Almighty God, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob: by Whose Word all things were created, by Whose Spirit all things are proclaimed; One Godhead and Threefold Majesty, Inseparable in Nature, Undivided in Person; One and Only God; a Threefold Unity Unconfounded, an Undivided Conjunction and Distinction; Whom we name, believe, and confess to be One Substantially and Three Personally. For Thou Art God, and there is none according to Thy works. Thou hast founded the Earth upon the water; Thou hast set the law of creation unto all things: Thou Who Appearest Threefold in One, and in Three Art Acknowledged One. The Father Unbegotten; the One Son is Begotten; the One Holy Ghost is from the Father Proceeding, Co-Eternal with the Father and the Son. Yet in the Three There is One Might, and Dignity, and Power; and so Joined is the Distinction, that to Thee there is Glory in the Heavens, Power in the waters, Wisdom in the Earth, Virtue in the deeps, Brightness among the Angels, Dignity among the Prophets, Sublimity among the Evangelists, Authority among the Apostles, Loving-Kindness in the Commandments, placations in the Temples, Festivity in the Holocausts, Bounty in the ministers: Through Christ Our Lord. Unto Whom the Angelic, Flame-Bearing Choir showeth terrible service; Whom the Cherubim and Seraphim, sitting as charioteer, behold with trembling subjection and marvel at; before Whose Sight the Wondrous Order of the Four-and-Twenty Elders, bearing upon the crown of the head glittering crowns of shining gems, and the Living Creatures also, varied with diverse countenances and joined together unto the One Gospel, praise together with everlasting jubilation, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy…