4th Sunday of Advent: COLLECT (2)
Novus Ordo4th Sunday of Advent — Dec 20, 2026, Dec 19, 2027, Dec 24, 2028
Gratiam tuam, quaesumus Domine, mentibus nostris infunde, ut qui, Angelo nuntiante, Christi Filii tui incarnationem cognovimus, per passionem eius et crucem ad resurrectionis gloriam perducamur.We beg You, O Lord, pour Your grace into our minds and hearts, so that we who came to know the incarnation of Christ Your Son in the moment the Angel was heralding the news, may be guided through His Passion and Cross to the glory of the resurrection. Carefully note that Angelo nuntiante is an ablative absolute, hard to render in English without using a paraphrase. The participle nuntiante is in the present tense, or better, in a tense “contemporary” with the time of the verb cognovimus having a past tense. Thus, in the very moment the Angel was heralding the good news, we (collectively in the shepherds) knew about how God the Son Eternal took our whole human…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? The 4th Sunday of Advent ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2004 On 4 December, the anniversary of the Vatican Council’s Apostolic Constitution on the Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium, I attended a “day of study” held by the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments (CDWDS) on the newest, 2004 edition of the…