Collect · May 21, 2021 · Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday: Holy Church’s warp and weft remain strong
Novus OrdoPentecost Sunday — May 16, 2027, Jun 4, 2028
Deus, qui sacramento festivitatis hodiernae universam Ecclesiam tuam in omni gente et natione sanctificas, in totam mundi latitudinem Spiritus Sancti dona defunde, et, quod inter ipsa evangelicae praedicationis exordia operata est divina dignatio, nunc quoque per credentium corda perfunde.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who by the sacramental mystery of today’s feast do sanctify Your universal Church in every people and nation, pour down upon the whole breadth of the earth the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and make that which divine favor wrought amidst the very beginnings of the preaching of the Good News to flow now also through believers’ hearts.
The Fiftieth Day Feast, Hebrew Shavuot or Greek Pentekosté, for the Jews commemorated the descent of God’s Law to Moses on Mount Sinai, wreathed in fire, fifty days after the Exodus. But Jewish feasts also looked forward even as they looked back to an historic event. At Shavuot they looked forward to the return of the fiery glory cloud of…