Collect · Mar 27, 2016 · WDTPRS
WDTPRS Easter Sunday: “Be sprigs!”
Novus OrdoEaster Sunday — Mar 28, 2027, Apr 16, 2028
Deus, qui hodierna die, per Unigenitum tuum, aeternitatis nobis aditum, devicta morte, reserasti, da nobis, quaesumus, ut, qui resurrectionis dominicae sollemnia colimus, per innovationem tui Spiritus in lumine vitae resurgamus.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who today, once death was conquered, unbarred for us the gateway of eternity through Your Only-begotten, grant to us, we beg, that we who are reverently observing the solemn annual rites of the Lord’s resurrection, may through the renewing of Your Spirit rise again in the light of life.
We observed the Sacred Triduum: the priesthood was celebrated, the Eucharistic Christ was reposed and the altar stripped, the Passion was sung and the Cross was kissed. Our liturgical death was complete. Then in the evening, in some places even at midnight, the Easter Vigil began. Flowers, instrumental music, white and gold vestments returned after a long drought of ornamentation.…