A Facebook friend posted a column by Father Raymond J. de Souza in the Catholic Register. In a manner we've come to appreciate from Father Z, Father de Souza remnds us what the prayer really says.
This coming Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Advent has a very special Collect in both the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite
Last year and for the forty-one years before, in the Novus Ordo Missae, this is what we heard:
Lord,
Fill our hearts with your love,
and as you revealed to us by an angel
the coming of your Son as man,
so lead us through His suffering and death
to the glory of His resurrection,
for He lives and reigns…
This Sunday coming, we will hear this:
Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord,
your grace into our hearts,
that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ your Son
was made known by the message of an Angel,
may by His Passion and Cross
be brought to the glory of the Resurrection.
Who lives and reigns…
Does it sound familiar?
It should as it is commonly known as the Angelus Prayer said three times a day.
What the translators at ICEL did to the Mass in English and us was a crime and a pretty blatant one at that, too!
That Blessed John Paul II rectified this not only with the Third Typical Edtion of the Roman Missal but more importantly, Liturgiam Authenticum and the Vox Clara Commission is one more reason why he his Blessed.
How many more nice surprises in the new Roman Missal are in store for us?
A corporal work of mercy.
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