Collect · Jun 8, 2014 · Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
WDTPRS (1962MR) Pentecost: understanding rightly
Novus OrdoPentecost Sunday — May 16, 2027, Jun 4, 2028
Deus, qui corda fidelium Sancti Spiritus illustratione docuisti: da nobis in eodem Spiritu recta sapere, et de eius semper consolatione gaudere.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant to us, in the same Spirit, to know the things that are right, and to rejoice always in His consolation.
Let’s look at the Collect for Pentecost as it appears in the Missale Romanum of St. John XXIII. You will recognize it as the prayer after the Veni, Sancte Spiritus: This ancient from at least the time of the Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis and probably older. It survived the Consilium’s scalpels to live in the Novus Ordo only as the Collect…