31st Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (1)
Novus Ordo31st Sunday of Ordinary Time — Oct 31, 2027, Nov 5, 2028
Augeatur in nobis, quaesumus, Domine, tuae virtutis operatio, ut, refecti caelestibus sacramentis, ad eorum promissa capienda tuo munere praeparemur.May the working of your power, O Lord, be increased in us, so that, having been reinvigorated by the heavenly sacraments, we may by your gift be prepared to grasp hold of the things they promise. It is easy to snipe at the now lame-duck ICEL translations made decades ago. At the same time it is very hard to produce adequate alternatives. Consider that two of the Latin words is today’s prayer have at the same time regular, surface meanings which are somewhat intuitive from having a good working English vocabulary inventory. However, both those words when you get under the surface had for centuries religious and ritual applications that make them snap and echo with new possibilities. How does…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 JR writes via e-mail: “Some time ago, you wrote in WDTPRS about the ordo, and its notation of the daily "station churches," which were, of course, deleted from the Roman Missal when it was revised…