Collect · Jan 6, 2018 · Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Patristiblogging, WDTPRS
WDTPRS – Epiphany Collect: Liturgy should be “epiphany”, wherein we encounter transforming mystery.
Novus OrdoEpiphany — Jan 3, 2027, Jan 2, 2028
Deus, qui hodierna die Unigenitum tuum stella duce revelasti, concede propitius, ut qui iam te ex fide cognovimus, usque ad contemplandam speciem tuae celsitudinis perducamur.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who on this very day revealed your Only-begotten, a star as the guide, graciously grant, that we, who have already come to know You by faith, may be led all the way unto the beauty of Your glory to be contemplated.
In the Novus Ordo calendar Epiphany (which is supposed to be 12 days after Christmas – the reason it is called “Twelfth Night”) is sometimes moved to the Sunday. I suppose that they reasoned that more people would celebrate the important feast that way. 1) that signals that bishops think that our obligations according to the religion of virtue aren’t…