CollectSep 11, 2021
Respice nos, rerum omnium Deus creator et rector, et, ut tuae propitiationis sentiamus effectum, toto nos tribue tibi corde servire.
Literal renderingBe mindful of us, O God, creator and ruler of all things, and, in order that we may sense the effect of Your act of atonement, allow us to serve You with our whole heart.
Given The Present Crisis™ – exacerbated by the antics of Francis with Traditionis custodes and the manifest incompetence and faithlessness of Biden – and the call, often taken up now, for prayer and more prayer, we might consider: Does it really make a difference to offer prayers to God?
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Mentes nostras et corpora possideat, quaesumus, Domine, doni caelestis operatio, ut non noster sensus in nobis, sed eius praeveniat semper effectus.
Literal renderingMay the religious work of bringing the offering of the heavenly gift, we beseech, O Lord, possess our minds and bodies, so that its effect and not our common inclination have precedence within us. The vocabulary of our prayer today is very dense, and so our English translation will suffer if we try to come up with one-to-one equivalents for the Latin elements. For example, the word sensus has great weight. It means more than simply “sense”. Even in a non-theological source such as the preferred Latin Dictionary of fame we find that sensus carries meaning beyond what we might perceive by the five physical senses of the body or by the perceiving powers of the mind. It points to…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Exaltation of the Cross (24th Sunday of Ordinary Time) ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 Again the ubiquitous Rome correspondent of the left-leaning National Catholic Reporter, Mr. John L. Allen, Jr., writes in his “The Word From Rome” column of 29 August 2003 that the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the…
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