CollectDec 22, 2018
Gratiam tuam, quaesumus Domine, mentibus nostris infunde, ut qui, Angelo nuntiante, Christi Filii tui incarnationem cognovimus, per passionem eius et crucem ad resurrectionis gloriam perducamur.
Literal renderingWe beg You, O Lord, pour Your grace into our minds and hearts, so that we who came to know the incarnation of Christ Your Son in the moment the Angel was heralding the news, may be guided through His Passion and Cross to the glory of the resurrection.
Let’s view the Collect in the Novus Ordo for the 4th Sunday of Advent, which is also the Post Communion for the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March) in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (1962MR). The Annunciation was the moment of the Incarnation of our Lord.
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CollectDec 21, 2008
Sumpto pignore redemptionis aeternae, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut quanto magis dies salutiferae festivitatis accedit, tanto devotius proficiamus ad Filii tui digne nativitatis mysterium celebrandum.
Literal renderingWe beg You, O Lord, pour Your grace into our minds and hearts, so that we who came to know the incarnation of Christ Your Son in the moment the Angel was heralding the news, may be guided through His Passion and Cross to the glory of the resurrection. Carefully note that Angelo nuntiante is an ablative absolute, hard to render in English without using a paraphrase. The participle nuntiante is in the present tense, or better, in a tense “contemporary” with the time of the verb cognovimus having a past tense. Thus, in the very moment the Angel was heralding the good news, we (collectively in the shepherds) knew about how God the Son Eternal took our whole human…
Today’s Collect is the Post-communion of the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March) in the 1962MR. Most of you who recite the Angelus know this prayer. This time we also get the WDTPRS version since we want to know what the prayer really says. This is also the prayer said traditionally after the Alma Redemptoris Mater, sung following Compline during…
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CollectDec 21, 2008
Excita, quaesumus, Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni: et magna nobis virtute succurre; ut, per auxilium gratiae tuae, quod nostra peccata praepediunt, indulgentia tuae propitiationis acceleret.
Literal renderingRouse up Your power, O Lord, we beseech You, and come: and hasten to aid us with your great might, so that, through the help of Your grace, what our sins are hindering the indulgence of Your merciful favor may make swift.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 4th Sunday of Advent – Roman Station: Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles This prayer was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary and other sacramentaries. It survived in edited form in the Novus Ordo on Thursday of the 1st week of Advent.
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Altari tuo, Domine, superposita munera Spiritus ille sanctificet, qui beatae Mariae viscera sua virtute replevit.
Literal renderingO Lord, may the Spirit Himself, who by His power made full the womb of blessed Mary, sanctify the gifts placed upon Your altar.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 4th Sunday of Advent – Roman Station: Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 On 5 December I attended the annual conference on sacred music held by the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments (CDWDS). His Eminence the Prefect, Francis Cardinal Arinze, presided and outgoing,…
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Da nobis, quaesumus, Domine, Unigeniti Filii tui recensita nativitate vegetari, cuius caelesti mysterio pascimur et potamur.
Literal renderingNow that the pledge of eternal redemption has been consumed, we beg, almighty God, that by however so much more the day of the saving festivity is approaching, by that same degree we may more devoutly make progress toward celebrating worthily the mystery of the nativity of your Son.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 4th Sunday of Advent – Station: Twelve Apostles & Vigil of Christmas ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 I am sure people are forgetting to remember that there was in Rome a Synod of Bishops about the Eucharist well over a year ago. Pope Benedict XVI presided after cutting the schedule by a…
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