4th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Post communion

We who have been quickened by the gift of our redemption, O Lord, beseech you, that true faith may always gain ground by means of this aid for eternal salvation. The mighty Lewis & Short Dictionary tells us that the late Latin verb vegeto means “to arouse, enliven, quicken, animate, invigorate.” There are three kinds of living beings with material bodies, i.e., vegetative, animal and human (angels are living beings too, but without bodies). Proficio has a range of meanings. Basically, it is “to go forward, advance, gain ground, make progress”. In different contexts is can mean this and also, “to grow, increase” and “to be useful, serviceable, advantageous, etc., to effect, accomplish; to help, tend, contribute, conduce”. Think of…