Collect · Jun 7, 2015 · Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
WDTPRS: Corpus Christi – COLLECT (2002MR)
Novus OrdoCorpus Christi — May 30, 2027, Jun 18, 2028
Deus, qui nobis sub sacramento mirabili passionis tuae memoriam reliquisti, tribue, quaesumus, ita nos Corporis et Sanguinis tui sacra mysteria venerari, ut redemptionis tuae fructum in nobis iugiter sentiamus.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who bequeathed to us under a wondrous sacrament the memorial of Your Passion, grant us, we implore, to venerate the sacred mysteries of Your Body and Blood in such a way that we constantly sense within us the fruit of Your redemption.
In 1246, Robert of Thourotte, Bishop of Liège, Belgium, had instituted in his diocese the feast now known as Corpus Christi at the request of an Augustinian nun Juliana of Cornillon, who composed an office for it. In 1264, Pope Urban IV ordered the feast of the Body of Christ to be celebrated as a holy day of obligation for…