On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.
CollectJun 20, 2026
Sancti nominis tui, Domine, timorem pariter et amorem fac nos habere perpetuum, quia numquam tua gubernatione destituis, quos in soliditate tuae dilectionis instituis.
Literal renderingOf Your Holy Name, O Lord, empower us to possess both a perpetual fear and, in no way less, a love: because You never deprive of Your guidance those whom You ground in the solidity of Your love.
This coming Sunday’s Collect is wonderful to sing! It is stark and lavish, carefully balanced, quintessentially Roman. This week’s Collect, also in 1962 Missale Romanum for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for the Sunday after the Ascension (Thursday). It is also prayed after the Litany of the Most Holy Name of Jesus.
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Prayer over the OfferingsJun 25, 2006
Suscipe, Domine, sacrificium placationis et laudis, et praesta, ut, huius operatione mundati, beneplacitum tibi nostrae mentis offeramus affectum.
Literal renderingAccept, O Lord, the sacrifice of placation and praise, and grant that we, having been cleansed by the religious work of this sacrificial act of offering, may offer you the well-pleasing affection of our minds.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 The long time reader of these columns and now frequent participant on the WDTPRS internet blog, our friend HE, wrote to a bishop about liturgical translations and received a response (edited) which he shared: “Thank you for your letter of May 19,…
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