2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time: COLLECT (2)
Novus Ordo2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time — Jan 17, 2027, Jan 16, 2028
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui caelestia simul et terrena moderaris, supplicationibus populi tui clementer exaudi, et pacem tuam nostris concede temporibus.Almighty eternal God, who at the same time does govern things heavenly and earthly, mercifully harken to the supplications of Your people, and grant Your peace in our temporal affairs. ICEL (1973 translation of the 1970MR): Father of heaven and earth, hear our prayers, and show us the way to peace in the world. In the past we discovered in the course of this WDTPRS series that the ICEL versions of the prayers for the festal seasons of Advent/Christmas and Lent/Easter were marginally better than those of Ordinary Time. Now that we are in Ordinary Time again you will see a change in the quality of the “translations”. They must have had a different committee work on the prayers of…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 I am glad to have received a note via snail-mail from Fr. VY, OFM who has corrected an error I made about the pre-Conciliar liturgical calendar. I had said that in the 1962MR 1 January…