Ulysses phrase

[jonels]

What does "introibo ad altare dei" mean?

[Quizmonster]

"I will go in unto the altar of God."

[grasscarp]

Introibo ad Altare Dei, from the beginning of the Latin Mass, means I will go in to the Altar of God.

[grasscarp]

Very strange. I posted this because there was no replies. Now I look again and like magic there is an earlier response!

[Quizmonster]

Grasscarp, please click here. I've no idea what you'll find there today, but at the time I submitted it, nothing appeared, so I submitted again...and again...and again...still nothing.
Later I returned to the same page and three of my submissions had appeared there as if by magic. I then added another response, asking, "What the heck...?" Later still, I went back to find that there were still three reaponses but two of them had a label saying they had been banned! Today - ar least on my monitor - there is just the single answer.
So, I don't know whether AnswerBank just decided to target my offerings or if something was wrong with the whole system. Either way, that might explain why you didn't see my answer until hours after it had been posted. Seems it was just hovering in the ether.

Now, I wonder what's going to happen to this one!

[Clanad]

You're not paranoid, Q... they really are after you...

[jno]

goodness, when the robots start banning QM, something is seriously amiss. Haven't they got better things to do?

[grasscarp]

This is the strangest of websites at times. I was banned once, like all the best people!

[Quizmonster]

What really puzzled me was the use of the word 'banned' for answers which were duplications and, thus, only superfluous rather than offensive.
Incidentally, my account above of what happened earlier also failed to register at the time but appeared here later. It's quite disconcerting and, if it goes on much longer, I may well finish up cowering in a corner, as you suggest, C!
(I wonder whether this will now float away upon some electronic wave before reappearing.)

[Quizmonster]

It did. Time for a "Contact Us", I think.

[Peter Pedant]

It is a verse:

and the response is
Clamor meus ad te veniat
and let my cry come up to you

I think: these are verses and responses at the very beginning of the old Latin (tridentine) Mass
and form a bit of the piece called the Introit

[grasscarp]

I seem to remember the response was "to God, who giveth joy to my youth"
The response you mention is after "Lord Hear My Prayer"