Collect · Dec 17, 2008 · SESSIUNCULA
WDTPRS: Last Days of Advent: 17 December
Novus OrdoDecember 17 — Dec 17, 2026, Dec 17, 2027
Deus, humanae conditor et redemptor naturae, qui Verbum tuum in utero perpetuae virginitatis carnem assumere voluisti, respice propitius ad preces nostras, ut Unigenitus tuus, nostra humanitate suscepta, nos divino suo consortio sociare dignetur.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, creator and redeemer of human nature, who desired Your Word to assume flesh in a womb of perpetual virginity, look propitiously on our prayers, so that Your Only-Begotten, now that our humanity has been taken up, may deign to integrate us into His own fellowship.
We have come to the last days of the Church’s preparation for the feast of the Nativity of the Lord. This ancient prayer is from Gelasian Sacramentary as well as Rotulus 31 published together with the Veronese Sacramentary. It was not in any pre-Conciliar edition of the Missale Romanum.