CollectFeb 22, 2025
Praesta, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut nullis nos permittas perturbationibus concuti, quos in apostolicae confessionis petra solidasti.
Congratulations to all those who belong to the Ordinariate of the Chair of Peter a fine feast day. Today is an opportunity to reflect of the will of the Savior about a necessary element for His Church: the Petrine Ministry. Once upon a time, there were two feasts of Peter’s cathedra, chair, his official role as teacher who strengthens the…
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CollectMar 17, 2011
Largire nobis, quaesumus, Domine, semper spiritum cogitandi quae recta sunt, promptius et agendi, ut, qui sine te esse non possumus, secundum te vivere valeamus.
Literal renderingWe beg you, O Lord, bestow upon us the spirit of thinking always things which are correct, and of carrying them out promptly, so that we who are not able to exist without You may be able to live according to Your will. In St. Augustine’s commentaries on the Gospel of John (Io. eu. tr. 51,3):
Today’s prayer is unchanged from the Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and so-called “Gregorian“. It was in the 1962 Missale Romanum too. It was the used on the 8th Sunday after Pentecost. I cannot fathom why the redactors of the Novus Ordo thought there were not enough ancient lenten prayers in the available venerable sacramentaries. I wasn’t consulted.
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Post CommunionMar 5, 2009
Quaesumus, Domine, Deus noster, ut sacrosancta mysteria, quae pro reparationis nostrae munimine contulisti, et praesens nobis remedium esse facias et futurum.
Literal renderingWe beseech You, O Lord, our God, that the most holy sacramental mysteries which You conferred as the rampart of our renewal, you will cause to both a present and a future remedy.
We continue our project of looking at the Post communions of Lent: Thursday – 1st Week of Lent Keep in mind that we are also in the context of Ember Week, though that is not a Novus Ordo phenomenon. This prayer was in the 1962 Missale Romanum on Saturday of Ember Week in Advent. It is an ancient prayer, as…
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Ecclesiae tuae, quaesumus, Domine, preces et hostias benignus admitte, ut, beato Petro pastore, ad aeternam perveniat hereditatem, quo docente fidei tenet integritatem.
Literal renderingO Lord, we beseech Thee, kindly suffer to receive the prayers and sacrificial offerings of Thy Church, so that, blessed Peter being Her shepherd, and, by whom as he is teaching holds fast to the integritry of the Faith, She may attain to the eternal inheritance.
COLLECT: Praesta, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut nullis nos permittas perturbationibus concuti, quos in apostolicae confessionis petra solidasti. There is nothing especially difficult about the grammar and vocabulary of this prayer, though it is theologically profound. NB: the solidasti is really solidavisti, a "syncopated" form. This is a good deal harder than the Collect. From the point of view of vocabulary,…
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