Another correction!
Recently Tom Isbicki wrote:
>>I have heard the "Stir up" collect used in Episcopal churches for advent
>>2. Has it been moved by Rome as well? Christ the King is a more recent
>>feast (1925 accordingto the New Catholic Encyclopedia).
I replied:
>Christ the King was moved from its 1925 position (last Sunday in October) to
>the Sunday before Advent in 1970. So far as I know the "Stir up" collect
>has no place in the present Roman liturgy.
However, I have been having another look at the collect for the 34th week of
the year (i.e. the last week of the year, the week before Advent). This is
as follows:
Lord, strengthen the wills of your people to be more active in doing good
works, and so gain from your loving-kindness more abundant healing. We make
our prayer through our Lord . . .
This is so bland that I had not recognised it as a translation of the
collect "Excita, quaesumus"; but that is what it is. So I was wrong to say
that the "Stir up" collect has no place in the present Roman liturgy.
The collect is for the last week, as opposed to the last Sunday, of the
year. The Sunday is the feast of Christ the King, but this is a one-day
feast. For the remaining weekdays we celebrate what we have always
celebrated, the last week of the year. So in fact nothing has changed:
semper eadem. Rome has not moved the place of the collect. However I would
not envisage stirring my Christmas pudding to the words of "Lord, strengthen
the wills of your people . . ."
A full comparison between the various versions will be given in due course.
Bill.
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