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WDTPRS – Collect of the 13th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): the sticky goo of error and the freeing splendor of the truth. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Novus Ordo13th Sunday of Ordinary Time — Jun 27, 2027, Jul 2, 2028
Deus, qui, per adoptionem gratiae, lucis nos esse filios voluisti, praesta, quaesumus, ut errorum non involvamur tenebris, sed in splendore veritatis semper maneamus conspicui.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who willed us, through the adoption of grace, to be children of light, grant, we beg, that we may not be wrapped up in the shadows of errors, but that we may remain always conspicuous in the splendor of truth.
At work in the Collect for the 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time are themes of divine adoption, the liberation of the children of God, the peril of error, and the splendor of Truth. Here is the Collect: O God, who willed us, through the adoption of grace, to be children of light, grant, we beg, that we may not be…