CollectMay 26, 2017
Supplicationibus nostris, Domine, adesto propitius, ut, sicut humani generis Salvatorem tecum in tua credimus maiestate, ita eum usque ad consummationem saeculi manere nobiscum, sicut ipse promisit, sentiamus.
Literal renderingGraciously give attention to our supplications, O Lord, so that, just as we believe the Savior of human kind is, in your majesty, with you, we thus may sense him, just as he promised, to be remaining with us all the way unto the consummation of the world.
I won’t acknowledge Ascension Thursday Sunday. Yesterday was the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord and Sunday is, in the Ordinary Form, the 7th Sunday of Easter. Let’s look at the Collect for the 7th Sunday of Easter. There is a spiffy parallelism here in sicut… tecum and ita… nobiscum.
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Prayer over the OfferingsMay 28, 2006
Deus, cuius Filus hodie in caelos, Apostolis astantibus, ascendit, concede nobis, quaesumus, ut secundum eius promissionem et ille nobiscum semper in terris et nos cum eo in caelo vivere mereamur.
Literal renderingO God, whose Son today ascended into the heavens as the Apostles were standing close by, grant us, we beseech You, that, according to His promise, we may be worthy both that He lives with us on earth, and that we live with Him in heaven.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Vigil of Ascension Thursday Sunday (7th Sunday of Easter) ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 Today’s WDTPRS offering ought to be about the 7th Sunday of Easter. However, in some places the Feast of the Ascension, which falls always on a Thursday, has been transferred to this Sunday. That would make it “Ascension…
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Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui in terra constitutos divina tractare concedis, praesta, quaesumus, ut illuc tendat christianae devotionis affectus, quo tecum est nostra substantia.
Literal renderingAlmighty eternal God, who allow those established upon earth to treat of divine things, grant, we beseech, that the disposition of Christian devotion may bend our course to that place where our substance is now with you. In the Incarnation, God the Son, the Second Person, took our humanity, our substantia into an indestructible bond with His divinity, His substantia. In the Resurrection, our substantia rose from death in Christ. In His Ascension, the God Man took our human nature to be seated at the right hand of the Father. Our humanity is at this very moment already seated in bliss with the Father in the Person of the risen Christ. By living in friendship with Him in the state…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 7th Sunday of Easter & Ascension Thursday Sunday ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 I promised to report more about the recently reported “Rescript” obtained from His Holiness by His Eminence DarÃÂo Card. Castrillon-Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy and President of the Pontifical Commission…
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Suscipe, Domine, fidelium preces cum oblatione hostiarum ut, per haec piae devotionis officia, ad caelestem gloriam transeamus.
Literal renderingAccept, O Lord, the prayers of the faithful with the offering of sacrificial victims so that through these dutiful services, we may pass over to heavenly glory.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Seventh Sunday of Easter/Ascension of the Lord ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2002 In many places where WDTPRS is read, Ascension Thursday is transferred and celebrated on the following Sunday, the Seventh of Easter. Last year I did both, so I will do the same this year.
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