On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.
CollectAug 15, 2026
Deus, qui diligentibus te bona invisibilia praeparasti, infunde cordibus nostris tui amoris affectum, ut, te in omnibus et super omnia diligentes, promissiones tuas, quae omne desiderium superant, consequamur.
Literal renderingO God, who have prepared unseen goods for those loving You, pour into our hearts the disposition of Your love, so that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may attain Your promises, which surpass every desire.
The Collect for the 20th Ordinary Sunday, found also in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary, is in the 1962 Missale Romanum for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. Our prayer has many different words for love and longing: diligo, amor, affectus and the related cor, desiderium, promissio. Affectus means “a state of body, and especially of mind produced in one by…
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Prayer over the OfferingsAug 20, 2006
Suscipe, Domine, munera nostra, quibus exercentur commercia gloriosa, ut, offerentes quae dedisti, te ipsum mereamur accipere.
Literal renderingCatch up our gifts, O Lord, by which glorious transforming exchanges are given impetus, so that we who are offering what you have given may merit to be recipients of You Yourself.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 His Excellency Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds and chairman of the new and improved ICEL, wrote a piece for The Tablet (5 August) describing the status quaestionis. Here are a few of his comments.
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