WDTPRS: 5th Sunday after Pentecost – Snatched up into invisible love

Deus, qui diligentibus te bona invisibilia praeparasti, infunde cordibus nostris tui amoris affectum; ut te in omnibus et super omnia diligentes, promissiones tuas, quae omne desiderium superant, consequamur.

This Sunday’s prayer is at least as old as the Gelasian Sacramentary. It has survived the post-Conciliar revisions to live again on the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time. The version in the Novus Ordo, however, adds a comma after ut. The insuperable Lewis & Short Dictionary divulges that affectus means “a state of body, and especially of mind produced in…

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