In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is the 7th Sunday after Pentecost.
Today’s Collect survived the cutting and pasting experts of the Consilium to live on as the Collect for the 9th Sunday of Ordinary Time.
COLLECT (1962MR):
Deus, cuius providentia in sui dispositione non fallitur
te supplices exoramus,
ut noxia cuncta submoveas,
et omnia nobis profutura concedas.
Blaise/Chirat (a dictionary of Latin in French) indicates that dispositio is “disposition providentialle”. It has to do God’s plan for salvation. Fallo is an interesting word. It means basically, “to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, disappoint” and it has as synonyms “decipio, impono, frustror, circumvenio, emungo, fraudo”. Fallo is used to indicate things like simply being mistaken or being deceived. It can apply to making a mistake because something eluded your notice or it was simply unknown. In our Latin conversation it is not uncommon to say nisi fallor, “unless I am mistaken…”. If you look for submoveo you may have to check under summoveo. Find profutura under prosum. Don’t confuse noxia with noxa.
LITERAL WDTPRS VERSION:
God, whose providence in its plan is not circumvented,
humbly we implore You,
that you clear away every fault
and grant us all benefits.
There is no getting around or circumventing God’s plan.
Why, given who God is and who we are, would we want to try?
We have to make a choice about which way to go with noxia. Does it mean “harmful things” that are outside us or that are within us, that is, our own sins, our faults? Both?
But we NEVER have to HEAR IT AGAIN.
We have to make a choice about which way to go with noxia. Does it mean “harmful things” that are outside us or that are within us, that is, our own sins, our faults? Both?
God knows who we are and what we need far better than we can ever know ourselves.
Foreseeing all our sins and many faults, all that we say and do is embraced in He eternal plan.
He has disposed all things so as to make glorious things result from the evils for which we alone are responsible.
It is good for us each day never to forget to make an Act of Faith, which is a good Trinitarian prayer.
O my God, I firmly believe that Thou art one God in Three Divine Persons, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I believe that Thy Divine Son became Man, and died for our sins, and that He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe these and all the truths which the Holy Catholic Church teaches, because Thou hast revealed them, Who canst neither deceive nor be deceived.
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Thanks for this, Fr. Z.
That Act of Faith is powerful–each word is carefully chosen.
Father, thank you so much for these posts and translations of the collects. I am a convert of 8 years, attending the NO Mass, and I have never found much substance in the collects I hear at Mass. After reading your commentary and translations, I understand why that is so. I know there are those who are not excited about the new translation, but from what you post it appears to be far better than what we have been subjected to. You have really opened my eyes (and ears) to these brief but soon-to-be meaty prayers.
Father, although this doesn’t apply to me personally, I’ve been wondering what priests should do with their lame-duck altar missals after the corrected translation takes effect. Would it be irreverent to put them in the trash? Should they be incinerated? Buried? Kept on the shelf forever?
That Trinitarian Prayer is beautiful, thank you for sharing that with us! I’m copying it for my own regular use.
I am eager for the new translation because of the education you give– your work does not fall into silence but is heard/read.
:)