Collect · Apr 14, 2006 · SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS
Good Friday
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ORATIO Reminiscere miserationum tuarum, Domine, et famulos tuos aeterna protectione sanctifica, pro quibus Christus, Filius tuus, per suum cruorem instituit paschale mysterium.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Remember Your mercies, O Lord, and with your eternal protection sanctify Your servants, for whom Christ, Your Son, established the paschal mystery by means of His Blood.
The rich and enlightening Lewis & Short Dictionary shows that cruor has a precise meaning: "Blood (which flows from a wound), a stream of blood (more restricted in meaning than sanguis, which designates both that circulating in bodies and that shed by wounding). LITERAL VERSION Remember Your mercies, O Lord, and with your eternal protection sanctify Your servants, for whom…