9th Week of Ordinary Time
Novus Ordo9th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Deus, cuius providentia in sui dispositione non fallitur te supplices exoramus, ut noxia cuncta submoveas, et omnia nobis profutura concedas.God, whose providence in its plan is not circumvented, humbly we implore You, that you clear away every fault and grant us all benefits. There is no getting around or circumventing God’s plan. Why, given who God is and who we are, would we want to try? God knows who we are and what we need far better than we can ever know ourselves. Foreseeing all our sins and many faults, all that we say and do is embraced in He eternal plan. He has so disposed to make glorious things result from the evils for which we alone are responsible.
COLLECT: Deus, cuius providentia in sui dispositione non fallitur te supplices exoramus, ut noxia cuncta submoveas, et omnia nobis profutura concedas. Blaise/Chirat indicates that dispositio is “disposition providentialle”. It has to do God’s plan for salvation. Fallo is an interesting word. It means basically, “to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, disappoint” and it has as synonyms “decipio, impono, frustror, circumvenio, emungo,…