Here is the Collect for Wednesday of the 2nd Week of Advent.
COLLECT:
Omnipotens Deus, qui nos praecipis
iter Christo Domino praeparare,
concede propitius, ut nullis infirmitatibus fatigemur,
qui caelestis medici consolantem praesentiam sustinemus.
This prayer is ancient, from Rotulus 6 published together with the Veronese Sacramentary.
Notice the image of Christ as medicus, physician.
English translation?
I think maybe some of you might take a crack at it today.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
A Daily Prayer for Priests
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265
on SAVE THE LITURGY – SAVE THE WORLD! A TLM community reports in with GOOD NEWS: “Thanks Fr. Z for sharing the electronic epistle from our brethren and sisteren in Erie, hard by the waters of…”
on A different compendium: “Here is the question that I would pose…if Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (former Joseph Ratzinger) passes away before Pope Francis,…”
on Antonio Socci on the recent Corriere piece with and about Benedict XVI: “Well said, Fr. SOTELO. The devil loves to sow doubt and division. If someone occupying the Chair of Peter says…”
on @BishopBarron on Barron. @EricSammons on Barron. Wherein @FatherZ rants.: “I see a lot of rancor and dissatisfaction with “Boomer Priests” and “Novus Ordo Clown Masses” as if they were…”
on LENTCAzT 2021: 19 – 3rd Sunday of Lent: Basilicas and Aquinas: “Fr Z. I watched you say Mass today, Sunday 7 March. You said we have the sacraments to help us.…”
on ASK FATHER: At Mass ‘ad orientem’ why doesn’t the priest turn around for the Preface dialogue?: “Unfortunately, some Ordinariate priests have conserved a rather odd Anglican practice of turning for this dialogue.”
on Antonio Socci on the recent Corriere piece with and about Benedict XVI: “It has been eight years since Benedict XVI resigned, accepted the ensuing conclave, rendered public respect to Bergoglio *as Pope,…”
on Antonio Socci on the recent Corriere piece with and about Benedict XVI: “To respond to Fr. Zuhlsdorf’s comments on my previous post : First of all, Gänswein’s comment can certainly be understood…”
on LENTCAzT 2021: 19 – 3rd Sunday of Lent: Basilicas and Aquinas: “Thank you again for these great podcasts! Beats the “Little Black Book.”” on @BishopBarron on Barron. @EricSammons on Barron. Wherein @FatherZ rants.: “Anita Moore OP (lay), chantgirl, Michael Haz, sibnao, et al: Good points. There is some rumbling in the discussion here,…”
on @BishopBarron on Barron. @EricSammons on Barron. Wherein @FatherZ rants.: “@Arturo – For some insightful thoughts about the Novus Ordo as compared with the Traditional Latin Mass, I might recommend…”
on WDTPRS – 3rd Sunday of Lent (2002MR): Two wings of prayer: “roma247 says: send the Fatty McButterpants types running and screaming for the doors Given the incident with Fatty’s loathsome and…”
on WDTPRS – 3rd Sunday of Lent (2002MR): Two wings of prayer: “When I saw that this post was titled “two wings of prayer” and I looked at the illustration, then saw…”
on Daily Rome Shot 93: “That lovely dog is smiling. He must love whoever is taking the photo. Maybe dogs need to take over.”
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful.
That way I have steady income I can plan on, and you wind up regularly on my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I periodically say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
My "challenge coin" for my 25th anniversary of ordination in 2016.
Want one? I do exchanges with military and LEOs, etc.
Loading ...If you travel internationally, this is a super useful gizmo for your mobile internet data. I use one. If you get one through my link, I get data rewards.
Loading ...
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
Help Monks in Wyoming (coffee – UPDATED LINK) and Norcia (beer) and the wonderful "Soap Sisters" of Summit, NJ!
Please follow me on Twitter!
Visits tracked by Statcounter
since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
Almighty God, who commands us to prepare the way for Christ the Lord,
be Thou disposed to grant that we who endure the present life
by the consolation of the divine physician,
might be wearied by no weaknesses.
(sorry, “by the consolation” is a stretch for an accusative) best on short notice.
Almighty God, who commands us to prepare the way for Christ the Lord, propitiously grant us that we may be wearied by no weaknesses, who preserve the consoling presence of the heavenly Physician.
I am not quite happy with sustinere=preserve. I think sustinere here conveys several nuances, which it is all but impossible to translate, especially for one who is not a native English speaker.
“we who preserve the consoling presence” I like that better. I was thinking for something too complex.
Almighty God, who commands us to prepare the way for Christ the Lord: graciously grant that we, who rely on the present solace of the heavenly physician, may be wearied by no weakness.
Sustinemus could also mean “we await” (Acts 20.5), but that seems to clash with praesentiam. I think the sense is of “running the race”, “enduring to the end” (cf. I Cor 4.12, maledicti benedicimus, persecutionem passi sustinemus, “when reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure”).
I came up with a crufty version first, and then looked at the previous entries to adjust mine:
Almighty God, who commands us
to prepare the way for Christ the Lord,
graciously grant that no weakness may tire us,
who are sustained by the present consolation of the Heavenly Physician.
That’s my “literal” translation.
I don’t mean to criticize, but is there a special reason why everyone is making an adjective of “præsentiam” and a noun of “consolantem”?
Almighty God, who teaches us
to make ready a way for Christ our Lord
grant we beseech, that we may not tire from any weakness,
as we uphold the consoling presence of the heavenly physician.