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Prayer "Between" the Lord's Prayer?

Question

Question

How come we have a prayer in between the Lord's Prayer and the "For the Kingdom?" When did it start in the Mass?

--Don't know in Dunston

Answer

Answer

This prayer goes back to St. Gregory the Great[c.600] when the "embolism" was added to the prayer in an attempt to elongate the prayer. Many Eastern rites have similiar prolongations.