Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Motto of Bishop Pacelli: Opus Iustitiae Pax (The Work of Peace is Justice)

Rome lore has it that Mons. Pacelli got his motto from here - walking by Santa Maria dell' Anima for countless years and having read these words as he passed. 

Erit Opus Iustitiae Pax
Et Cultus Iustitiae
Silentium
Et Securitas Usque
In Sempiternum

(And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.)

-Isaiah 32:17

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2 comments:

  1. JWYNovember 19, 2014 at 2:57 PM

    The timing of your post was a happy coincidence. While looking over the Latin, I was curious what might be the source of such (seemingly) unusual expressions. But before I had a chance to Google the words, I was putting my children down and reading to them from the Book of Isaiah these words: "And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever." Then it dawned on me that I had seen them elsewhere earlier in the day! (Thank you for this and all of your posts from Rome!)

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  2. AnonymousNovember 19, 2014 at 3:15 PM

    http://www.biblestudytools.com/parallel-bible/passage.aspx?q=isaiah+32:17&t=vul&t2=niv

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