16th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Post Communion
Novus Ordo16th Sunday of Ordinary Time — Jul 18, 2027, Jul 23, 2028
Populo tuo, quaesumus, Domine, adesto propitius, et, quem mysteriis caelestibus imbuisti, fac ad novitatem vitae de vestustate transire.We beseech you, O Lord, mercifully to be present to your people, and cause those whom you have imbued with the heavenly sacramental mysteries to cross over from the old to newness of life. Our baptismal character remains forever, on earth, in heaven or in hell. It can never be removed. We are forever changed by this pouring or immersing with water and the Trinitarian formula. Our outward comportment and interior landscape must reflect this deepest of realities. At the moment we hear this Post communionem prayer, the Lord has deigned to allow Himself in the sacred Host to be “dipped” into what should be the pure and clean chalice of our earthly bodies. When the Host is “moistened” by…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 Mr. John L. Allen, Jr., the outstanding Rome correspondent for the less than traditionally minded National Catholic Reporter reports in the 3 July 2003 The Word From Rome offering that on 27 June the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF)…