Collect · Jun 9, 2012 · WDTPRS
WDTPRS: Corpus Christi – I affirm my subjugation to Christ vanquisher of hell and my sins.
Novus OrdoCorpus Christi — May 30, 2027, Jun 18, 2028
Deus, qui nobis sub sacramento mirabili passionis tuae memoriam reliquisti, tribue, quaesumus, ita nos Corporis et Sanguinis tui sacra mysteria venerari, ut redemptionis tuae fructum in nobis iugiter sentiamus.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who bequeathed to us under a wondrous sacrament the memorial of Your Passion, grant to us, we implore, to venerate the sacred mysteries of Your Body and Blood in such a way that we constantly sense within us the fruit of Your redemption.
Here is a photo I took a few years ago in the Vatican Gardens during a Corpus Christi procession. That great edifice in the background is back of St. Peter’s Basilica. It isn’t often you get Swiss Guards to carry the canopy. I noted that His Eminence Marc Card. Ouellet said the other day that adoration of the Blessed Sacrament…