St. John the Baptist: notes and oldie PODCAzT
Sollemnitas Nativitatis sancti Ioannis Baptistae, Praecursoris Domini, qui iam in utero matris, Spiritu Sancto repletae, exsultavit gaudio ad humanae salutis adventum cuiusque ipsa nativitas Dominum Christum prophetavit; et tanta gratia refulsit in eo, ut ipse Dominus de illo diceret neminem maiorem inter natos mulierum Ioanne Baptistae.Literal rendering
O God, who raised up blessed John the Baptist, so that he would prepare a perfect people for Christ the Lord, grant to your peoples the grace of spiritual joys and guide the minds of all the faithful into the way of salvation and peace.
Today is the Feast of the one whom the Lord called the greatest man ever born of woman. Here is his entry in the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum: I’ll let you readers provide your own perfect versions. Let’s have a look at the… I like the sound of the ends of the clauses – suscitasti… praepararet… gaudiorum and then a big…
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