Post CommunionMar 3, 2009
Literal renderingO Lord, may it be brought to us by these sacramental mysteries, that thereby we, pacifying earthly desires, learn to love the heavenly.
We continue our project of looking at the Post communions of Lent: Tuesday – 1st Week of Lent This is an ancient prayer, found in the usual manuscripts such as the Liber Sacramentorum Augustodunensis, Engolismensis, and Gellonensis. POST COMMUNIONEM: His nobis, Domine, mysteriis conferatur, quo, terrena desideria mitigantes, discamus amare caelestia.
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Respice, Domine, familiam tuam, et praesta, ut apud te mens nostra tuo desiderio fulgeat, quae se corporalium moderatione castigat.
Literal renderingLook up Your family, O Lord, and grant, that our soul, which is checking itself by means of moderation of corporal things may shine in Your sight with Your longing.
COLLECT Respice, Domine, familiam tuam, et praesta, ut apud te mens nostra tuo desiderio fulgeat, quae se corporalium moderatione castigat. Today’s prayer was in the 1962 Missale Romanum and, long before that, in the so-called ancient "Gregorian Sacramentary". This has been adapted for the Novus Ordo, however. More about that later.
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