WDTPRS 19th Sunday after Pentecost: SECRET – saving and healing

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WDTPRS 19th Sunday after Pentecost: SECRET - saving and healing

Today’s Secret for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost was in ancient versions of the Gelasian Sacramentary, such as the 8th c. Gellonensis. I don’t think it survived the scissors of the Consilium, wielded by Fr. Bugnini’s liturgical experts. SECRET (1962MR): Haec munera quaesumus, Domine, quæ ocul

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In the Introit the Psalmist sings “Attend, O my people, to my law.” In the Collect we pray to seek what is of God (“quae tuae sunt”). The Communion explicitly speaks about God’s mandata, His commandments “to be kept most diligently”. The Postcommunion links the medicinalis operatio with keeping God’s laws (“inhaerere mandatis”).