I’ve been looking for the Collect for the Mass for Bl. Fulton Sheen.
This is how it was pronounced during the Beatification ceremony in St. Louis:
O God, who called the bishop Blessed Fulton Sheen to preach the Gospel to the whole world, grant we pray that by following his example of prayer, and the devotion to the Mother of your Son, we may also be loyal sons and daughters of your Church by bearing witness to the Faith.
I haven’t yet found the Latin text, which no doubt exists. However, this is how I render it in my non-official Latin:
Deus, qui beatum Fultonem (Fulton?) Sheen episcopum
ad Evangelium universo mundo praedicandum vocasti,
concede, quaesumus,
ut, eius exemplum orationis et devotionis erga Matrem Filii tui sequendo,
fideles Ecclesiae tuae filii (et filiae) simus fidei testimonium perhibendo. Per Dominum nostrum…
Modern Collects are so wordy compared to the ancient orations. I could get fancier with it, but… nah.
When I get the Latin text, I’ll have to have a comparison.
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