4th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Collect (1)
Novus Ordo4th Sunday of Ordinary Time — Jan 31, 2027, Jan 30, 2028
LATIN (1970 Missale Romanum) Concede nobis, Domine Deus noster, ut te tota mente veneremur, et omnes homines rationabili diligamus affectu.Grant us, O Lord our God, that we may venerate you with our whole mind, and may love all men with rational good-will. We are asking God to permit us, to allow us as a great gift and favor granted, to “venerate†God with our whole mind. This veneror, as the great Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary provides, has a deeply religious connotation and means, “to reverence with religious awe, to worship, adore, revere, venerate… to do homage.†Think of its use in the well-known Tantum Ergo, which describes us as cernui, “heads bowed to the ground.†To “venerate†as we should, it will be necessary to seek to know Him for we are to do this with our “whole…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN THE WANDERER in January 2001 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN THE WANDERER in January 2001 This prayer comes in a time when we see in the newsworthy activities being covered by the media that love of God and neighbor should be prayed for with great and intense fervor.…