Collect for the Commemoration of Bl. John Paul II

Deus, dives in misericordia, [As I suspected] qui beatum Ioannem Paulum, papam, universae Ecclesiae tuae praeesse voluisti, [ditto] praesta, quaesumus, ut, eius institutis edocti, [hmmm… ] corda nostra salutiferae gratiae Christi, [perhaps better gratiae Christi salutiferae] unius redemptoris hominis, fidenter aperiamus. [As I suspected, on both counts.]

When a person is beatified their “cult” or the public liturgical observance of the person is normally restricted to the place most closely associated with the blessed’s life and work or the blessed’s religious institute, if a member. The liturgical cult of Bl. Pope John Paul II will be observed in Rome and in Poland. Bishops would have to seek…

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