We are firmly ensconced in the green season, called in the traditional Roman calendar the Season of Pentecost, this Sunday being its fifth after that great feast. Here is the Collect for this Sunday in Holy Church’s official language and our patrimony of prayer:
Deus, qui diligentibus te bona invisibilia praeparasti, infunde cordibus nostris tui amoris affectum; ut te in omnibus et super omnia diligentes, promissiones tuas, quae omne desiderium superant, consequamur.
This oration pulses with longing. When it is pronounced aloud, in Latin, my ears tune in to the connection between invisibilia at the beginning and promissiones at the end. In a super-literal way we can render this as:
