Collect · Sep 14, 2020 · Lighter fare, Linking Back, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
WDTPRS: Exaltation of the Cross … and kingly herbs … and BASIL EMERITUS!
Novus OrdoThe Exaltation of the Holy Cross — Sep 14, 2027, Sep 14, 2028
Deus, qui nos hodierna die Exaltationis sanctae Crucis annua solemnitate laetificas: praesta quaesumus; ut cuius mysterium in terra cognovimus, eius redemptionis praemia in caelo mereamur.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who on this day gladden us by the yearly solemnity of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross: grant, we beseech You; that in heaven we may merit to attain the rewards of redemption of Him, whose mystery we have known on earth.
Today is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. The feast commemorates the discovery, as tradition has it under sweet basil herb bushes, of the Holy Cross by Emperor Constantine’s mother St Helena in AD 325 in Jerusalem as well as and the Dedication of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher built on that site in 335. A portion…