Sunday, August 15, 2027

WDTPRS – 13th Sunday after Pentecost: “E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace!”

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, da nobis fidei, spei et caritatis augmentum: et, ut mereamur assequi quod promittis, fac nos amare quod praecipis.

Today’s Collect for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo survived the redactors to live on in the Novus Ordo as the Collect for the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time. It is an ancient prayer, found in the Veronese and the Gelasian Sacramentary.

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WDTPRS – SECRET 13th Sunday after Pentecost: a fearful puzzle

Propitiare, Domine, populo tuo, propitiare muneribus, ut, hac oblatione placatus, et indulgentiam nobis tribuas, et postulata concedas.

This is a classic Roman prayer, terse, balanced. Note the elegant repetition of propitiare. These two petitions are followed by two more, set off by an et…et construction. On the page of your Missale Romanum you may not immediately see the parallel construction, but when it is separated into different lines and arranged as below, you can see how it…

WDTPRS – 30th Ordinary Sunday: “E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace… In His will is our peace.”

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