3rd Sunday of Advent: SUPER OBLATA (2)
Novus Ordo3rd Sunday of Advent — Dec 13, 2026, Dec 12, 2027, Dec 17, 2028
Devotionis nostrae tibi, Domine, quaesumus, hostia iugiter immoletur, quae et sacri peragat instituta mysterii, et salutare tuum nobis potenter operetur.We now beg, O Lord, let there be offered up to You continuously the sacrificial victim of our devotion, which may both carry through the actions of the sacred mystery that was instituted, and mightily effect for us Your salvation. ICEL (1973 translation of the 1970MR): Lord, may the gift we offer in faith and love be a continual sacrifice in your honor and truly become our eucharist and our salvation. I guess, you can’t object to what the ICEL prayer says all in all, except for the fact that it doesn’t translate what the Latin really says. Notice that ICEL made Latin devotio, that single-minded dedication, into “faith and love.” They ought to have simply said “devotion”, but that…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 3rd Sunday of Advent – Gaudete – Roman Station: Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 His Eminence Francis Card. Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments (CDWDS) was interviewed recently by Inside the…