Earlier this year, I purchased a set of fifteen books for the Liturgical Year by the Abbott Gueranger, O.S.B. It was written in 1927, and has some incredible prayers which are not read, except by holy priests during their Holy Office. I don't know why we don't get to hear them, because some of them are just too beautiful to not be heard. Occasionally, I will try to sneak some of them in during my postings. The following one is for Wednesday from the Mozarabic Missal. I know this isn't Wednesday, but I just read it today.
It is meet and just, and available to us in all things, that we always should extol, by all possible praises, thy clemency, O almighty Father, who didst create us in holiness and nobleness, and, when the fraud of the old serpent had seduced us, didst in pure mercy deliver us from death. Thou didst foretell, in past ages, that the Son, whom thou wast to send in the flesh for us, would come on this earth and would be born of a Virgin, and by thy holy prophets didst foretell the advent of His birth; and this to the end that He who had been promised, having been long expected, might give great joy to the world when He should come in the fulness of time. Wherefore we pray and beseech thee, that thou, who didst not suffer thy creature to perish, because thou art truly compassionate and merciful, but didst restore what was lost by the humble coming of thy Son, wouldst now so protect, so keep, so heal, so defend, so free, what thou hast found and repaired and restored, that in that dread coming, whereby thy Son shall come a second time to judge those by whom and for whom He Himself was judged, He may so find the creatures that He has redeemed, that He may eternally possess those whom He purchased with the price of His Blood. Amen
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