Collect · Jan 29, 2011 · WDTPRS
WDTPRS: Wherein Fr. Z rambles about the Collect for the 4th Ordinary Sunday, or, “All you need is love”.
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Concede nobis, Domine Deus noster, ut te tota mente veneremur, et omnes homines rationabili diligamus affectu.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Grant us, O Lord our God, that we may venerate you with our whole mind, and may love all men with rational good-will.
Today’s prayer was not in the post-Tridentine editions of the Missale Romanum but it does have its origin in the Leonine Sacramentary or, as it is better titled by its editor, the scholarly L. Cunibert Mohlberg, the Veronese Sacramentary. Were you to hear this prayer intoned in Latin, or at least in an accurate translation, you would be thereby transported…