On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.
CollectNov 3, 2024
Omnipotens et misericors Deus, de cuius munere venit, ut tibi a fidelibus tuis digne et laudabiliter serviatur, tribue, quaesumus, nobis, ut ad promissiones tuas sine offensione curramus.
Literal renderingAlmighty and merciful God, from whose gift it comes that You be served by the faithful worthily and laudably, grant us, we beseech You, that we may run toward Your promises without stumbling.
At the end, I rant. The Collect for the 31st Ordinary Sunday, which was in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary, is also found in the Extraordinary Form on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost. Servio, “to serve”, is very rarely found in the passive. We must break “that it be served in reference to You” down into “that You be served”.
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Post CommunionNov 5, 2006
Augeatur in nobis, quaesumus, Domine, tuae virtutis operatio, ut, refecti caelestibus sacramentis, ad eorum promissa capienda tuo munere praeparemur.
Literal renderingMay the working of your power, O Lord, be increased in us, so that, having been reinvigorated by the heavenly sacraments, we may by your gift be prepared to grasp hold of the things they promise. It is easy to snipe at the now lame-duck ICEL translations made decades ago. At the same time it is very hard to produce adequate alternatives. Consider that two of the Latin words is today’s prayer have at the same time regular, surface meanings which are somewhat intuitive from having a good working English vocabulary inventory. However, both those words when you get under the surface had for centuries religious and ritual applications that make them snap and echo with new possibilities. How does…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 JR writes via e-mail: “Some time ago, you wrote in WDTPRS about the ordo, and its notation of the daily "station churches," which were, of course, deleted from the Roman Missal when it was revised…
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