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Welcome to another installment of What Does the Prayer Really Sound Like? Today we will hear the prayers for the feast of Epiphany in the 1962 Missale Romanum. I speak all the prayers and readings and sing the Preface for Epiphany in the solemn tone, and also sing the Collect and Post Communion in the solemn tone. [display_podcast] https://zuhlsdorf.computer/prayercazt/080105_epiphany.mp3
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On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.
Deus, qui hodierna die Unigenitum tuum stella duce revelasti, concede propitius, ut qui iam te ex fide cognovimus, usque ad contemplandam speciem tuae celsitudinis perducamur.O God, who on this very day revealed your Only-begotten, a star as the guide, graciously grant, that we, who have already come to know You by faith, may be led all the way unto the beauty of Your glory to be contemplated.
In the ancient Western Church and in the East, Epiphany was more important than the relative latecomer Christmas. Epiphany is from the Greek word for a divine “manifestation” or “revelation”. There are many “epiphanies” of God in the Scripture. Think, for example, of the burning bush encountered by Moses.
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Here is a link to my WDTPRS article on the Vigil of Epiphany. Who would like to take a shot at this?
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →Caelesti lumine, quaesumus, Domine, semper et ubique nos praeveni, ut mysterium, cuius nos participes esse voluisti, et puro cernamus intuitu, et digno percipiamus affectu.O Lord, we beg you, go before us always and everywhere with heavenly illumination, so that we may discern with a pure regard the sacramental mystery, of which you desired us to be participants, and perceive it with a worthy disposition. At first glance, you will see immediately a reference to the miraculous star that led the Magi to the Christ Child: “go before us with a celestial light (lumen).” There are also verbs of perceiving and discerning in our prayer (cerno…percipio). We have the image of some in a journey through a dark place who needs both light and also sharpened senses so that he can make the best use of that light lest he lose his way and…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Epiphany EXCERPTED from the 2006 article: POST COMMUNIONEM – Ad Missam in die LATIN (2002 Missale Romanum): Caelesti lumine, quaesumus, Domine, semper et ubique nos praeveni, ut mysterium, cuius nos participes esse voluisti, et puro cernamus intuitu, et digno percipiamus affectu. This prayer was once the Postcommunio of the commemoration of the Baptism of…
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“in Vigilia†Sacra alimonia renovati, tuam, Domine, misericordiam deprecamur, ut semper in mentibus nostris tuae appareat stella iustitiae et noster in tua sit confessione thesaurus.May the splendor of Your majesty, O Lord, we beseech You, light up our hearts, by which we may be able to pass through the shadows of this world, and come through to the fatherland of eternal glory. We are on a journey through this vale of tears, striving with our might to reach our longed for destination, our heavenly homeland. In St. Augustine’s (+430) theology, Christ Himself is the patria, the Fatherland, as well as being the way to get there, the via. He is “light from light†shining in the darkness, who alone can illuminate our lives. Only with the help of grace can we pass through the shadowy tangle of this earthly existence. Just as a light…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Vigil of Epiphany On 20 December Pope Benedict XVI addressed the members of the Sistine Chapel Choir about the importance of sacred music and liturgical celebration. He said an important thing (my translation): “The Pope’s liturgy, the liturgy in (the Basilica) of St. Peter, must be the model liturgy for the world. You know…
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →Ecclesiae tuae, quaesumus, Domine, dona propitius intuere, quibus non iam aurum, thus et myrrha profertur, sed quod eisdem muneribus declaratur, immolatur et sumitur, Iesus Christus.Graciously gaze down, we beseech Thee, O Lord, upon the gifts of Thy Church, in which gold, frankincense, and myrrh are no longer laid before Thee, but rather that which is revealed, sacrificed and received by means of those same gifts, Jesus Christ. You will right away notice that we have two different Latin words for “gift†herein: donum and munus. The fine Lewis & Short Dictionary lets us know that donum is associated in classical Latin literature with gifts of incense in a passage from the Aeneid of Virgil: dona turea (6, 225). The verb sumo is basically “to take, take up, lay hold of, assume.†In some contexts it can be “consume†and a raft of other meanings…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Epiphany The cycle of Christmas was traditionally a magnificent drama in three acts. These different stages of the cycle reveal different aspects of the Incarnation of the Word. During Advent we are taught by Holy Mother Church about the prophecies of the one who was to come. During Christmastide, we see the Word made…
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