Collect · Sep 29, 2018 · Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 26th Ordinary Sunday: “man cannot live without love”
Novus Ordo26th Sunday of Ordinary Time — Sep 26, 2027, Oct 1, 2028
Deus, qui omnipotentiam tuam parcendo maxime et miserando manifestas, gratiam tuam super nos indesinenter infunde, ut, ad tua promissa currentes, caelestium bonorum facias esse consortes.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who manifest Your omnipotence especially by sparing and by being merciful, pour Your grace upon us unceasingly, so that You may make us, rushing to the things You have promised, to be coheirs of heavenly benefits.
Our Collect for the 26th Ordinary Sunday, slightly different from its ancestor in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary, is also in the 1962 Missale Romanum for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost. A consors is someone with whom you share a common destiny (cum, “with” + sors “lot, fate, destiny”). Parco means, “to spare, have mercy, forbear to injure; forgive.” We see…