Rorate Caeli

Ecclesia Dei:
Recent changes in the Litany of Loreto must be observed

Vatican City (Fides Agency [News Agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples]) -
The Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei", expressing its own pleasure of observing the texts of the habitual prayers of the Christian faithful in the Latin language in the website of the Fides agency, underlines that two new "Marian titles" were added by Pope John Paul II to the Litany of Loreto [commonly known as the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary]: the title "Mater Christi" must be followed by the title "Mater Ecclesiae" and the title "Regina familiae" must precede the last title, "Regina Pacis". We thus inform our readers and the local Churches to complete the invocations of the Litany of Loreto, in case they have not already done so, both for their celebrations and when sending the translations to the Fides Agency.