The Merciful Orations of the Third Sunday after Pentecost
The traditional Roman rite observes at this point of the calendar the “Time After Pentecost.” Extending over almost half of the year, it is the great season of the Holy Spirit, the age between the first Whitsunday and the Last Judgment. While Advent commemorates the world before the Incarnation and while the Christmas and Easter cycles recall Christ’s earthly life, the Time after Pentecost corresponds to the age, broadly speaking, in which we currently live. The Preface of the Holy Trinity reminds us of the ongoing work of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in our lives, while the green vestments betoken our hope in God while we await the Second Coming.
Each Sunday of the Time after Pentecost equips us with the graces and lessons we need in order to remain faithful disciples in this post-apostolic age. While reminding us of the “day of visitation” at the end of time (Epistle), today’s Sunday recalls our Lord’s infinite mercy and love for us and the immense value of penance: “There shall be joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance,” proclaims today’s Gospel. (Luke 15.1-10) We should therefore cast our cares upon the Lord with confidence and hope (Epistle & Gradual).
Protéctor in te sperántium, Deus, sine quo nihil est válidum, nihil sanctum: multíplica super nos misericórdiam tuam, ut, te rectóre, te duce, sic transeámus per bona temporália, ut non amittámus ætérna. Per Dóminum.
O God, the Protector of all who hope in Thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing holy, multiply upon us Thy mercy; that with Thee as our ruler, Thee as our guide, we may so pass through temporal goods in such a way that we not lose those which are eternal. Through our Lord.
is unusually elaborate, consisting of the Address, the Appositional phrase, and the Statement of Fact. The Appositional phrase presents the positive aspect, the relative the negative: God is the Protector of those who hope in Him, and without His protection, nothing is strong; God is strength, everything else weakness. The antithesis imparts vigor to the thought .[1]
Réspice, Dómine, múnera supplicántis Ecclésiæ: et salúti credéntium perpétua sanctificatióne suménda concéde. Per Dóminum.
Look upon, O Lord, the offerings of Thy suppliant Church, and grant to Those believing in Thee, who are about to receive them, salvation through perpetual sanctification. Through our Lord.
Sancta tua nos, Dómine, sumpta vivíficent: et misericórdiæ sempitérnæ prǽparent expiátos. Per Dóminum.
May Thy holy things which we have received quicken us, O Lord: and may they prepare us who have been expiated for a sempiternal mercy. Through our Lord.
The Postcommunion resumes the theme of mercy, but instead of asking for mercy now, it asks that we be prepared for sempiternal mercy. I don’t know why “sempiternal” was chosen instead of “eternal” or “perpetual” (different ecclesiastical authors have different definitions of these words), but the point remains the same: God not only shows mercy to us now, but for His elect He shows mercy forever. In Heaven, we will be just as dependent on His mercy as we are on earth.
Source: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2022/06/the-merciful-orations-of-third-sunday.html
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