Collect · Apr 19, 2012 · WDTPRS
WDTPRS Collect for Thursday, 2nd Week of Easter
Novus OrdoThursday of the 2nd week of Easter — Apr 8, 2027, Apr 27, 2028
Deus, qui salute mundi sacrificum paschale effecisti, propitiare supplicationibus populi tui, ut interpellans pro nobis Christus Pontifix noster, nos per id quod nostri est similis reconciliet, per id quod tibi est aequalis absolvat.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who for the salvation of the world brought to pass the paschal sacrifice, be appeased by the supplications of your people, so that, Christ as our Bridge-Builder (Pontiff) interceding for us, may reconcile us through that which is like to us, and may absolve us by that which is equal to You.
A reader sent a note about today’s Collect, Thursday in the 2nd Week of Easter, in the Ordinary Form. Here is the Latin: This is a really interesting, though wordy, prayer. The construction, the parallels at the end, serves to illustrate, I think, the concept of Christ as Mediator, Pontifex. This prayer was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary, but this…