CollectMay 23, 2026
Deus, qui sacramento festivitatis hodiernae universam Ecclesiam tuam in omni gente et natione sanctificas, in totam mundi latitudinem Spiritus Sancti dona defunde, et, quod inter ipsa evangelicae praedicationis exordia operata est divina dignatio, nunc quoque per credentium corda perfunde.
Literal renderingO God, who by the sacramental mystery of today’s feast do sanctify Your universal Church in every people and nation, pour down upon the whole breadth of the earth the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and make that which divine favor wrought amidst the very beginnings of the preaching of the Good News to flow now also through believers’ hearts.
The Fiftieth Day Feast, Hebrew Shavuot or Greek Pentekosté, for the Jews commemorated the descent of God’s Law to Moses on Mount Sinai, wreathed in fire, fifty days after the Exodus. But Jewish feasts also looked forward even as they looked back to an historic event. At Shavuot they looked forward to the return of the fiery glory cloud of…
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CollectMay 17, 2024
Deus, qui corda fidelium Sancti Spiritus illustratione docuisti: da nobis in eodem Spiritu recta sapere, et de eius semper consolatione gaudere.
Literal renderingO God, who taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant to us, in the same Spirit, to know the things that are right, and to rejoice always in His consolation.
Pentecost Sunday’s Collect is the same as we recite after chanting the Veni, Sancte Spiritus. I am pretty sure that this ancient prayer, from at least the time of the Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis and probably older, survived the Consilium’s expert scalpels to live in the Novus Ordo only as the Collect for a Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit.
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HymnJun 3, 2009
I started this one thinking that I could make a fast audio project and then move on. Ha! In this PODCAzT I dissect the Pentecost Sequence, Veni Sancte Spiritus, also used during the Octave of Pentecost in the traditional Roman calendar. I give you some background on what a sequence is, what an octave is and then we start drilling.
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Praesta, quaesumus, Domine, ut, secundum promissionem Filii tui, Spiritus Sanctus huius nobis sacrificii copiosius revelet arcanum, et omnem propitius reseret veritatem.
Literal renderingAttend, we beg You, O Lord, that, according to the promise of Your Son, the Holy Spirit will reveal to us more abundantly the hidden sacred mystery of this sacrifice, and will graciously unlock for us all truth.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Pentecost Sunday ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 Week after week I have presented facts and analysis regarding the Translation Wars. You regular reader’s have learned about the campaign being waged by His Excellency Donald W. Trautman, chair of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) committee on liturgy, against the norms…
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Post CommunionJun 4, 2006
Deus, qui Eccelsiae tuae caelestia dona largiris, custodi gratiam quam dedisti, ut Spiritus Sancti vigeat semper munus infusum, et ad aeternae redemptionis augmentum spiritalis esca proficiat.
Literal renderingO God, who generously bestow heavenly gifts upon your Church, protect the grace which you have given, so that the gift of the Holy Spirit having been poured out may always flourish, and that the spiritual food may be advantageous unto an increase of eternal redemption.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Pentecost – Station: St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 There was a real development for the whole issue of translations of liturgical texts last week. On 24 May 2003 His Eminence DarÃÂo Card. Castrillon-Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy and President of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia…
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Today at the Church S. Maria ad Martyres, otherwise known as the Pantheon, an annual event much beloved of the Romans took place. At the end today’s Pentecost Mass red rose petals were let to fall in great abundance through the oculus or "eye" of the dome, which is open to the sky. The dome is actually a foot wider…
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