Holy Week Collects
Palm Sunday
Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui humáno géneri, ad
imitándum humilitátis exémplum, Salvatórem nostrum carnem súmere et crucem
subíre fecísti, concéde propítius, ut et patiéntiæ ipsíus habére documénta et
resurrectiónis consórtia mereámur.
Almighty eternal God, who in order to give the
human race an example of humility to imitate, has caused our Savior to take
flesh and to endure the cross, graciously grant that we may be worthy to follow
the example of his patience and share in his resurrection.
The following notes are taken from Lauren Pristas,
Collects of the Roman Missals and she follows the commentary of Sr. Mary
Gonzaga Haessly, Rhetoric in the Sunday Collects of the Roman Missal.
Not only is the Palm Sunday collect the same in
the 1962 and 1970/2002 missals but the collect has been unchanged since the
eighth century. This collect is in the
1962 missal the first of the Sunday collects since Lent II to have a laudatory qui
clause. Notice also the unusual length of the collect.
The qui clause is elaborate: with a purpose
clause ad imitándum humilitátis exemplum and two infinitive clauses
governed by one verb: carnem súmere et crucem subíre fecísti.
Haessly says that this the only collect Tridentine
Missal which the Savior is presented as our model.
Holy Monday
Da, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut, qui ex nostra
infirmitate deficimus, intercedente Unigeniti Filii tui passione, respiremus.
Pre 1970 Collect
Da, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut, qui in tot
adversis ex nostra infirmitate deficimus: intercedente unigeniti Filii tui
passione respiremus.
Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that we who
fail through infirmity in our many difficulties, may be relieved through
the merits of the passion of Thine only-begotten Son.
Monsignor Knox’s translation:
Fainting, thou seest us, Almighty God; so many
perils about us, and we so frail! Let but the Passion of thy only-begotten Son
come between, to grant us breathing space: who with thee in the bond of the
Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth and is God, world without end.
Holy Tuesday
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, da nobis ita dominicae
passionis sacramenta peragere, ut indulgentiam percipere mereamur.
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Almighty everlasting God, grant us so to celebrate
the mysteries of the Lord’s Passion, that we may merit to receive pardon.
This prayer was in the 1962MR on Tuesday of Holy
Week. It was in the Hadrianum and Paduenese of the ancient Gregorian
Sacramentary for the same day, when the Station is at Santa Prisca. So, it
seems that today we have a prayer which The Redactors of the Novus Ordo didn’t
fiddle around with. They left it on the same day as it had always been, and
didn’t change or cut out any words.
The verb perago means, according to the dark blue
bound Lewis & Short Dictionary, in its fundamental sense “to thrust
through, pierce through, transfix”. It can then come to mean by logical
extension “to drive about, harass, disturb, disquiet, agitate, annoy a person
or thing”. However, in our context here, it is probably “to carry through, go
through with, execute, finish, accomplish, complete. . . .
The verb percipiois “to take wholly, to seize
entirely”. Often when you see a prepositional prefix per on verbs, you get an
intensification of the concept of the verb. At the same time percipio is “to
perceive, observe” and “to feel” and “to learn, know, conceive, comprehend,
understand, perceive”. Blaise/Dumas gives us “recevoir (l’eucharistie)”. I
think this gets us close to the meaning for our prayer.
Holy Wednesday
Deus, qui pro nobis Filium tuum crucis patibulum
subire voluisti, ut inimici a nobis expelleres potestatem, concede nobis
famulis tuis, ut resurrectionis gratiam consequamur.
©copyrighted by Michael Martin: Thesaurus Precum
Latinarum
This ancient prayer from the first millennium is
found in the 1970 Missal as the collect for Holy Wednesday, the Feast of the
Triumph of the Cross (Sept 14), and votive Masses of the Holy Cross. In the
1962 Roman Missal it is used as the collect for Holy Wednesday and for votive
Masses of the Holy Cross during Pascal time.
O GOD, who for our sake didst will Thy Son to
undergo the torments of the Cross, that Thou mightest drive far from us the
power of the enemy; grant unto us Thy servants that we may attain to the grace
of His Resurrection. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
Maundy Thursday: Lauds
Deus, quem diligere et amare iustitia est,
ineffäbilis grätiæ tuæ in nobis dona multiplica, et, qui fecisti nos in morte
Filii tui speräre quæ crédimus, fac nos, eödem resurgénte, pervenire quo
téndimus. Qui tecum.
This collect was previously used in the Blessing
of the Palms on Palm Sunday.
O God, whom it is right to cherish and love,
multiply upon us the gifts of your ineffable grace and in as much as you have
caused us by the death of your Son to hope for what we believe, make us through his
resurrection to attain the end we seek.
Maundy Thurday: Vespers
Deus, qui ad gloriam tuam et generis humani
salutem Christum voluisti, summum aeternumque constituere sacerdotem, praesta,
ut populus, quem sanguine suo tibi acquisvit, ex eius memorialis
participatione, virtutem crucis ipsius capiat et resurrectionis.
O God, who for your glory and the salvation of the
human race, desired that Christ be made an eternal high priest, grant that, the
people he acquired by his blood, by partaking in his memorial, might receive the
power of his cross and resurrection.
This collect is now used in the restored Mass of Our
Lord Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest.
Good Friday: Lauds
Respice, quaesumus, Domine, super hanc familiam
tuam, pro qua Dominus noster Jesus Christus non dubitavit manibus tradi
nocentium, et crucis subire tormentum
This is taken from the Prayer over the People at
the end of Good Friday Liturgy
Watch over, we beseech you, O Lord, this your family,
for which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed and to be
delivered into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer the torment of the cross.
Holy Saturday: Lauds
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, cuius Unigenitus ad
inferiora terrae descendit, unde et gloriosus ascendit, concede propitious, ut
fideles tui, cum eo conseptuli in baptismate, ipso resurgente, ad vitam proficiant
sempiternam. Qui tecum.
Almighty, eternal God, whose only-begotten Son
descended to the realm of the dead, and from there he also ascended gloriously,
graciously grant that your faithful, having been buried with him in Baptism, by
his rising, may attain to everlasting life. who with.
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