Collect · Jun 2, 2006 · SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS
Friday after Ascension in the 7th Week of Easter
Novus OrdoFriday of the 7th week of Easter — Jun 2, 2028
Deus, qui nobis aeternitatis aditum glorificatione Christi tui et Sancti Spiritus illuminatione reserasti, concede, quaesumus, ut, tanti doni particeps, devotio nostra proficiat, et ad fidei transferamur augmentum.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who unbarred for us the avenue of eternity by the glorification of Your Christ and the illumination of the Holy Spirit, grant, we beg, that as a participant of such a great gift, our fervor will gain ground and we will be conveyed unto am increase of faith.
This was not in any pre-Conciliar version of the Missale Romanum, but it has a forerunner in the Veronese Sacramentary in the month of May in a section for prayers, wait for it, against the enemies of the Catholic faith. There are really hard words in this prayer. Again and again in these daily WDTPRS offerings we have seen the…