Crossword-Solution: CONFIRMA 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The priest started, and went on with the “_Confirma, hoc, Deus_.” And from this point until the “_Per Christum Dominum nostrum, Amen_,” which, since there was no Mass, closed the ceremony, he felt more master of himself and his emotions than at any time previously during this day.

Peter’s chair: _Petre, doce nos; confirma fratres tuos_—“Peter, teach us; confirm thy brethren.” The teaching which the Reverend Fathers sought from the lips of the Supreme Pastor was the definition of the Immaculate Conception.

They must always be in harmony, as was so admirably shown by the decision of the council on infallibility and the confirmation thereof by the Holy Father—_confirma fratres tuous_—“confirm thy brethren.” Let not the opponents of the Church and her salutary doctrines be carried away by the idea that a subservient council wished only to glorify their spiritual Chief by ascribing to him imaginary personal gifts.

Which was likewise made clearly manifest by the motto, which said, [Greek: Syn Theô]; and even more by the very short inscription that was seen beneath, saying: CONFIRMA HOC DEUS QUOD OPERATUS ES IN NOBIS.

DUCIS SAPIENTIA, CUM BONIS OMNIBUS DELICIISQUE SUMMA ANIMI SECURITATE DIU FELIX ET LÆTA PERFRUERE, ET DIVINÆ TUÆ VIRTUTIS, SUAVITATIS, FECUNDITATIS FRUCTIBUS PUBLICAM HILARITATEM CONFIRMA.