CollectJan 27, 2018
Concede nobis, Domine Deus noster, ut [et (in Ver.)] te tota mente veneremur, et omnes homines rationabili diligamus affectu.
Literal renderingGrant us, O Lord our God, that we may venerate you with our whole mind, and may love all men with rational good-will.
Today’s Collect prayer for the 4th Ordinary Sunday (it’s Septuagesima in the traditional calendar) was not in the post-Tridentine editions of the Missale Romanum but it does have its origin in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary. Were you to hear this prayer intoned in Latin, or at least in an accurate translation, you would be thereby transported back 1500 years to…
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Post CommunionJan 28, 2007
Redemptionis nostrae munere vegetati, quaesumus, Domine, ut hoc perpetuae salutis auxilio fides semper vera proficiat.
What Does The Prayer Really Say? 4th Sunday In Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2007 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2007 I had a lovely experience. I went for supper with a priest and 13 sisters visiting Rome. The Sister Servants of the Eternal Word told me they pray every day in their community for accurate…
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Prayer over the OfferingsJan 26, 2006
Altaribus tuis, Domine, munera nostrae servitutis inferimus, quae, placatus assumens, sacramentum nostrae redemptionis efficias.
Literal renderingWe are bringing in to place upon your altars, O Lord, the gifts of our service, which, having been appeased and as you take them up, you make into the sacrament of our redemption.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN THE WANDERER in January of 2002 Before we begin, I have a some proof that there are indeed readers of WDTPRS west of the mighty Mississippi. JFW of UT writes by snail-mail: “Your column is really a shot in the arm, but it indirectly reinforces my…
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LATIN (1970 Missale Romanum) Concede nobis, Domine Deus noster, ut te tota mente veneremur, et omnes homines rationabili diligamus affectu.
Literal renderingGrant us, O Lord our God, that we may venerate you with our whole mind, and may love all men with rational good-will. We are asking God to permit us, to allow us as a great gift and favor granted, to “venerate†God with our whole mind. This veneror, as the great Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary provides, has a deeply religious connotation and means, “to reverence with religious awe, to worship, adore, revere, venerate… to do homage.†Think of its use in the well-known Tantum Ergo, which describes us as cernui, “heads bowed to the ground.†To “venerate†as we should, it will be necessary to seek to know Him for we are to do this with our “whole…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN THE WANDERER in January 2001 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN THE WANDERER in January 2001 This prayer comes in a time when we see in the newsworthy activities being covered by the media that love of God and neighbor should be prayed for with great and intense fervor.…
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