CollectDec 9, 2023
Omnipotens et misericors Deus, in tui occursum Filii festinantes nulla opera terreni actus impediant, sed sapientiae caelestis eruditio nos faciat eius esse consortes.
Literal renderingAlmighty and merciful God, let no works of worldly impulse impede those hurrying to the meeting of Your Son, but rather let the learning of heavenly wisdom make us to be His co-heirs.
Our Novus Ordo Collect (once called the “Opening Prayer”) for the 2nd Sunday of Advent was not in the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum but it was in the so-called Rotulus (“scroll”) of Ravenna, dated perhaps as early as the 5th century. Impedio (built from the word pes, pedis, “foot”), at the core of this prayer, is “to snare or tangle the…
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CollectDec 3, 2011
Excita, Domine, corda nostra ad praeparandas Unigeniti tui vias; ut, per eius adventum, purificatis tibi mentibus servire mereamur.
Literal renderingRouse up our hearts, O Lord, to make ready the paths for Your Only-Begotten, so that through His Coming we may be worthy to serve You with minds made pure.
The 1962MR for the 1st Sunday of Advent stressed the Second Coming, and therefore attentive penance. Yet in the Postcommunion last week, the priest brought us back to preparation also for the approaching feast of the Nativity: “May we receive, O Lord, Thy mercy in the midst of Thy Temple, that we may prepare with due honor for the approaching…
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Placare, Domine, quaesumus, nostrae precibus humilitatis et hostiis, et, ubi nulla suppetunt suffragia meritorum tuae nobis indulgentiae succurre praesidiis.
Literal renderingBe Thou appeased, O Lord, we beseech Thee, by the prayers of our humility and by our sacrificial offerings, and, where no favorable points of merits suffice for us, succor us by the helps of Thy indulgence. This Sunday’s “prayer over the gifts” must be kept in context. This is a season of preparation for the Lord’s Coming. The Baptist warns us from the wilderness that we ought to “make straight His path” for someday we will face Him. If ahead of time we have not taken the proper steps, He will straighten us out Himself. This is a fearful thing to ponder. Indeed, were it not for the First Coming of the Lord and the Sacrifice He made for…
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