Category: Reflections

Source: http://anglatak.blogspot.com/2017/01/we-are-called-to-discipleship.html January 22, 2017 COLLECT Almighty ever-living God,
direct our actions according to your good pleasure, that in the name of your beloved Son we may abound in good works. 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.

Source: http://anglatak.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-revelation-of-salvation.html Epiphany of the Lord January 8 At the Mass during the Day Collect: O God, who on this day revealed your Only Begotten Son to the nations by the guidance of a star, grant in your mercy that we, who know you already by faith, may be brought to behold the beauty of your sublime glory. 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.

Source: http://anglatak.blogspot.com/ (The Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord [Christmas] SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD January 1 Collect: O God, who through the fruitful virginity of Blessed Mary bestowed on the human race the grace of eternal salvation, grant, we pray, that we may

Today is the 4th Sunday of Advent and we are faced about the images of the paschal mytery of Christ. The Church is reminding us that the birth of Jesus is “concretization” and part of God’s plan of salvation. This collect is familiar to us, because it is the prayer we used in the Angelus.

Source: http://anglatak.blogspot.com/2016/12/joyful-expectation-3rd-sunday-of-advent.html Collect: O God, who see how your people
faithfully await the feast of the Lord’s Nativity, enable us, we pray, to attain the joys of so great a salvation and to celebrate them always
with solemn worship and glad rejoicing.