3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time: Collect (1)
Novus Ordo3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time — Jan 24, 2027, Jan 23, 2028
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, dirige actus nostros in beneplacito tuo, ut in nomine dilecti Filii tui mereamur bonis operibus abundare.Almighty eternal God, direct our actions in your gracious purpose, so that in the name of Thy beloved Son, we may merit to abound with good works. Beneplacitum in the useful Lewis & Short Dictionary means “good pleasure, gracious purposeâ€Â. I choose “gracious purpose†here, since it is by God’s good purpose or pleasure and according to His plan that we can do anything that is good or worthy. This Latin word beneplacitum translates the original Greek word eudokia. Beneplacitum appears in the Jerome’s Latin translation of the New Testament called the Vulgate (e.g., Eph 1:9; 1 Cor 10:5). Jerome uses other phrases for the Greek eudokia, such as bona voluntas in Luke 2:14, the famous “peace on earth to…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Third Sunday in Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer Last week’s prayer for the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time was found also in the 1962 Missale Romanum and its antecedents (the so-called “Tridentine†Missal) for the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany. Sometimes the collects of the Novus Ordo have their origin in the previous…