Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Bishops: "Et in prophetis meis nolite malignari."

"I was saddened by the fact that even Catholics who, after all, might have had a better knowledge of the situation, thought they had to attack me with open hostility."

-- Benedict XVI

LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI
TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
CONCERNING THE REMISSION OF THE EXCOMMUNICATION
OF THE FOUR BISHOPS CONSECRATED BY ARCHBISHOP LEFEBVRE

Confitémini Dómino, et invocáte nomen ejus: * annuntiáte inter Gentes ópera ejus.
Cantáte ei, et psállite ei: * narráte ómnia mirabília ejus.
Laudámini in nómine sancto ejus: * lætétur cor quæréntium Dóminum.
Quærite Dóminum, et confirmámini: * quærite fáciem ejus semper.
Mementóte mirabílium ejus, quæ fecit: * prodígia ejus, et judícia oris ejus.
Semen Ábraham, servi ejus: * fílii Jacob, elécti ejus.
Ipse Dóminus Deus noster: * in univérsa terra judícia ejus.
Memor fuit in sæculum testaménti sui: * verbi, quod mandávit in mille generatiónes:
Quod dispósuit ad Ábraham: * et juraménti sui ad Isaac:
Et státuit illud Jacob in præcéptum: * et Israël in testaméntum ætérnum:
Dicens: Tibi dabo terram Chánaan, * funículum hereditátis vestræ.
Cum essent número brevi, * paucíssimi et íncolæ ejus:
Et pertransiérunt de gente in gentem, * et de regno ad pópulum álterum.
Non relíquit hóminem nocére eis: * et corrípuit pro eis reges.
Nolíte tángere christos meos: * et in prophétis meis nolíte malignári.

-- Psalmus 104(1-15) [1], Sabbato ad Matutinum, ad Nocturnum, Breviarium Romanum