Collect · Dec 3, 2016 · ADVENT, GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday of Advent: LIONS!
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Omnipotens et misericors Deus, in tui occursum Filii festinantes nulla opera terreni actus impediant, sed sapientiae caelestis eruditio nos faciat eius esse consortes.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Almighty and merciful God, let no works of worldly impulse impede those hurrying to the meeting of Your Son, but rather let the learning of heavenly wisdom make us to be His co-heirs.
Our Collect (once called the “Opening Prayer”) for the 2nd Sunday of Advent was not in the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum but it was in the so-called Rotulus (“scroll”) of Ravenna, dated perhaps as early as the 5th century. Impedio (built from the word pes, pedis, “foot”), at the core of this prayer, is “to snare or tangle the feet”. A…