DIVINUM OFFICIUM Prayer

Oratio

Common of Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Collect

This collect addresses God while invoking Mary's intercession: 'gloriosa intercessione.' The petition for 'perpetua mentis et corporis sanitate' (perpetual health of mind and body) asks for complete human flourishing. The 'praesenti liberari tristitia' (be freed from present sorrow) acknowledges the Church's current suffering. The 'aeterna perfrui laetitia' (enjoy eternal gladness) states the ultimate goal. Mary's intercession mediates both temporal relief and eternal joy. The collect presents Mary as active intercessor whose prayers achieve for us what we cannot achieve alone.

LATINE
Concede nos famulos tuos, quaesumus, Domine Deus, perpetua mentis et corporis sanitate gaudere: et gloriosa beatae Mariae semper Virginis intercessione, a praesenti liberari tristitia, et aeterna perfrui laetitia. Per Dominum.
ENGLISH
Grant unto us, thy servants, we beseech thee, O Lord God, to enjoy perpetual health of mind and body; and by the glorious intercession of the Blessed Mary ever Virgin, to be delivered from present sorrow, and to enjoy everlasting gladness. Through our Lord.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Common of Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Collect
HORA
Vespers
GENVS
Prayer