What is the "Secret" prayer in the "Tridentine" Mass

[gtsecc]

May the Lord receive the Sacrifice from your hands to the praise and glory of His Name, for our good, and that of all His holy Church.









The Secret

(The Priest here says the day's Secret prayer: )



(At the end of the Secret, the Priest says audibly: )

P. ..forever and ever.

S. Amen.

[CFoxDWH]

The day's Secret prayer? Does he need a decoder ring or something?

[RobNJ]

SHEEEE---OOOT (good catch ;) )
I've never even heard of the "Tridentine Mass" :scratch:

[Polycarp1]

Better asked over on OBOB. "Secret" doesn't mean what it appears to, but merely the fact that the priest says it sotto voce, as opposed to the loud voice with which he proclaims other parts of the Mass. It's a variable element of the Canon of the Mass (Consecration Prayer); beyond that, a expert in Tridentine liturgiology (probably Michelina, who knows a lot about this stuff) would have to answer it.

[Radagast]

It's said silently (apart from the last words) and varies.

According to http://www.wandea.org.pl/liturgy-eucharist.htm:
In the Secret of Whit Monday and Trinity Sunday we find the prayer 'Vouchsafe, O Lord, to sanctify these gifts, and receiving the oblation of this spiritual victim, make us (in Latin, the emphatic Nosmetipsos) an eternal sacrifice to Thyself.
-- Radagast