Collect · Mar 25, 2006 · SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS

Saturday in the 3rd Week of Lent

Novus OrdoSaturday of the 3rd week of Lent — Mar 6, 2027

Observationis huius annua celebritate laetantes, quaesumus, Domine, ut, paschalibus sacramentis inhaerentes, plenis eorum effectibus gaudeamus.
Fr. Z’s literal rendering

Rejoicing in the in the annual celebration of this religious observance, we pray, O Lord, that engaging deeply in the paschal mysteries, we may rejoice in their full effects. Here "effects" limps a bit for effectus which, in this context, points to the realization of both the Lenten observance and the paschal mysteries in both the sense of the Lent/Easter dying and rising of the Lord and also the sacred action of Holy Mass. Effectus must be the desired effective outcome of the the preceding. I think we get at this idea adequately with "effects" in English, though we might really need a circumlocution like, "effective outcome", or somewhat more philosophically "efficient realization".

COLLECT Observationis huius annua celebritate laetantes, quaesumus, Domine, ut, paschalibus sacramentis inhaerentes, plenis eorum effectibus gaudeamus. Today we have a nice parallel of the forms laetantes and inhaerentes and also of paschalibus sacramentis and plenis effectibus. This was in the Gelasianum Vetus on Saturday of Quinquagesima: Obseruationis huius annua caelebritate laetantes, quaesumus, domine, ut paschalibus actionibus inherentibus plenis eius effectibus…

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