The Confiteor’s Persian DNA
How Catholicism’s Daily Confession of Sin Is the Zoroastrian Patet Pashemani eFireTemple The Prayer at the Threshold Every Catholic Mass begins with a confession of sin. The faithful, before they hear the readings, before they offer the gifts, before they approach the Eucharist, recite a prayer that names what they have done wrong and asks the assembled saints and the gathered community to pray for them.
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How Catholicism’s Daily Confession of Sin Is the Zoroastrian Patet Pashemani eFireTemple The Prayer at the Threshold Every Catholic Mass begins with a confession of sin. The faithful, before they hear the readings, before they offer the gifts, before they approach the Eucharist, recite a prayer that names what they have done wrong and asks the assembled saints and the gathered community to pray for them. The prayer is called the Confiteor, from its first Latin word — confiteor, “I confess.” It is one of the oldest fixed elements of the Roman Rite, attested in substantially its current form by the eleventh century and standardized in its Tridentine version by 1314. The Confiteor names the categories of sin in a specific sequence.
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Gathas · Avesta · Hebrew Bible