What is the source of this prayer?

This prayer comes from Breviarium Romanum (1962), the official liturgical book of the 1962 Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite).

When is this prayer used?

This prayer is used during Passiontide at Vespers in the traditional Divine Office.

DIVINUM OFFICIUM Antiphon

Antiphona ad Magnificat

Feria III Hebdomadae Sanctae - Holy Tuesday Vespers Magnificat

This Magnificat antiphon for Holy Tuesday Vespers draws from John 10:18: 'I have power to lay down my life and to take it up again.' Christ's sovereign freedom over His own death is affirmed. The antiphon presents the Passion not as victimization but as the exercise of divine power through apparent weakness.

LATINE

Potestatem habeo ponendi animam meam, et iterum sumendi eam.

ENGLISH

I have power to lay down my life: and to take it up again.

NOTA

FONS

Breviarium Romanum (1962)

USUS

Feria III Hebdomadae Sanctae - Holy Tuesday Vespers Magnificat

HORA

Vespers

TEMPVS

passiontide

GENVS

Antiphon

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