Instead of a collect, today let’s look at the Exultet (the Easter Proclamation) we pray at the beginning of Easter Vigil. This ancient hymn of praise is typically sung by a deacon (but can also be sung by a priest or cantor). The poetry and drama of the Exultet calls the whole Church – in [...]
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Prayers for Easter Vigil
April 7, 2012Collects for Good Friday
April 6, 2012There are two options: Remember your mercies, O Lord, and with your eternal protection sanctify your servants, for whom Christ your Son, by the shedding of his Blood, established the Paschal Mystery. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen. Or: O God, who by the Passion of Christ your Son, our Lord, abolished [...]
Collects for Holy Thursday
April 5, 2012[Chrism Mass] O God, who anointed your Only Begotten Son with the Holy Spirit and made Him Christ and Lord, graciously grant that, being made sharers in his consecration, we may bear witness to your Redemption in the world. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity [...]
Collect for Wednesday of Holy Week
April 4, 2012O God, who willed your son to submit for our sake to the yoke of the Cross, so that you might drive from us the power of the enemy, grant us, your servants,to attain the grace of the resurrection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity [...]
Collect for Tuesday of Holy Week
April 3, 2012Almighty ever-living God, grant us so to celebrate the mysteries of the Lord’s Passion that we may merit to receive your pardon. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Collect for Monday of Holy Week
April 2, 2012Grant, we pray, almighty God, that, though in our weakness we fail, we may be revived through the Passion of your Only Begotten Son. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions for April, 2012
April 1, 2012General Intention: Vocations. That many young people may hear the call of Christ and follow him in the priesthood and religious life. Missionary Intention: Christ, Hope for Africans. That the risen Christ may be a sign of certain hope for the men and women of the African continent. O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of [...]
Christ’s Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem: So it begins …
April 1, 2012Collect for Palm Sunday: Almighty ever-living God, who as an example of humility for the human race to follow caused our savior to take flesh and submit to the Cross, graciously grant that we may heed his lesson of patient suffering and so merit a share in his resurrection. Who lives and reigns with you [...]
Collect (KAH-lehkt)
March 31, 2012Also known (in the English-language liturgical books) as the “Opening Prayer,” a formal prayer, usually addressed to the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit, by which the introductory rites are brought to a close and the assembly is prepared for the Liturgy of the Word. -Catholic Dictionary, Stravinskas One of the most [...]
Join the conversation!
March 28, 2012We have been so blessed lately to get together with leaders from several other Family Formation parishes! We were inspired by their enthusiasm and their great ideas for making it work in other settings, and among other things, it has reminded us of just how valuable this dialogue is to us all! We’d love to keep [...]
Matt Brounstein
Sue Klejeski
Molly Koop
