WDTPRS 2 May – St Athanasius: Propugnator, Doctor of the Church

2002MR: Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui beatum Athanasium episcopum divinitatis Filii tui propugnatorem eximium suscitasti, concede propitius, ut, eius doctrina et protectione gaudentes, in tui cognitione et amore sine intermissione crescamus.

In both the traditional Roman calendar and the post-Conciliar calendar today is the feast of St. Athanasius, Doctor of the Church. Let’s have a quick look at the Collect for the Mass for St. Athanasius in the Ordinary Form.. A propugnator is one who fights “in the place of” another, as indicated in that proposition pro in this compound. “Champion”…

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