XXIX. Second Sunday after the Feast of Trinity, Prayer

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XXIX. Dominica secunda post festum Trinitatis, Oratio. Homo quidam fecit coenam magnam ¹. Domine Jesu Christe, homo singularis, ineffabilis conditor matris: qui post opus creationis et formationis in opere recreationis per opus transformationis, fecisti nobis coenam magnam: magnam quinque panum refectione, scilicet, exsecutione divinae voluntatis, consolatione divinae promissionis, virtute orationis, sacramentorum efficacia, et cibo tuae carnis: magnam figurarum antiquitate, figurae et rei conjunctione, figurarum diversitate, instituentis charitate, credentium fide: magnam quantum ad conficientem, quantum ad id quod conficitur, et quantum ad digne sumentem, ut comedamus sacramentaliter, intellectualiter, et spiritualiter. Igitur ne vocati venire impediamur per villam terrenae occupationis, per juga boum quinque corporalium sensuum, aut per uxorem carnalis concupiscentiae: mitte servos tuos ordine, primo qui nos vocent per timorem qui de veteri vita exire nos faciat: secundo etiam per adversitatem nos ad coenam intrare compellant, ne per iram tuae aeternae indignationis separemur in praesenti a coena contemplationis, et in futuro a coena tuae manifestae visionis. Amen.

XXIX. Second Sunday after the Feast of Trinity, Prayer. A certain man made a great supper ¹. Lord Jesus Christ, singular man, ineffable maker of your mother: who, after the work of creation and formation, in the work of re-creation through the work of transformation, made for us a great supper: great by the refreshment of the five breads, namely by execution of the divine will, consolation of the divine promise, virtue of prayer, efficacy of the sacraments, and the food of your flesh; great by the antiquity of figures, by the conjunction of figure and reality, by the diversity of figures, by the charity of the one instituting, by the faith of believers; great with respect to the one confecting, with respect to that which is confected, and with respect to the one receiving worthily, so that we may eat sacramentally, intellectually, and spiritually. Therefore, lest we, having been called, be impeded from coming by the farm of earthly occupation, by the yokes of oxen of the five bodily senses, or by the wife of carnal concupiscence, send your servants in order: first, those who may call us through fear, which may make us go out from the old life; secondly also, through adversity, let them compel us to enter into the supper, lest through the wrath of your eternal indignation we be separated in the present from the supper of contemplation, and in the future from the supper of your manifest vision. Amen.

Notes

Compare Luke 14:16-24; Matthew 21:1-14. (Cf. Luc. XIV, 16-24. Matth. XXI, 1-14.) ↩