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 Fultonium Fultonem (Fulton? UPDATE: the decree in Latin had “Fultonius“) 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.
UPDATE:
Father, as I listened to Cardinal Tagle read the apostolic letter of beatification, he seemed to say “Fultonius” (nominative).
Father, what about the naming of the date of his feast, which I heard as being “die nona mense Decembris.” My transcription errors aside, is this the way dates are described in the Church now, rather than referring to the kalends, nones, and ides?
Eoin, we still use the kalends, nones, and ides as well as the phase of the Moon at the head of each day’s entry in the martyrology. But even in the lessons at Matins, the system is usually “the nth day of Month.” I believe that encyclicals And other documents going back over 100 years but have also used the “nth day of month.”
Now that he has, at long last, been beatified, is there a prayer intention for his intercession which would lead to his canonization? I can suggest several intentions: for the reform of the college of bishops so that they teach the faith with renewed vigor; for the healing of the wound concerning the Society of St Pius X