On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.
CollectJun 24, 2010
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 renderingO 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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Deus, qui praesentem diem honorabilem nobis in beati Ioannis nativitate fecisti: da populis tuis spiritualium gratiam gaudiorum; et omnium fidelium mentes dirige in viam salutis aeternae.
Literal renderingO 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. COLLECT: Deus, qui beatum Ioannem Baptistam suscitasti, ut perfectam plebem Christo Domino praepararet, da populis tuis spiritalium gratiam gaudiorum, et omnium fidelium mentes dirige in viam salutis et pacis. I like the sound of the ends of the clauses – suscitásti… praeparáret……
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