Trinitytide: An Extraordinary Time For Ordinary Catholics
[ Expanded from a 2019 post ] As one somewhat familiar with the counting of days according to Pentecost, an appreciation of the sequence of days that rubbed off from time served in the Latin Mass community, this blogger has become acquainted with the Ordinariate experience of - or discipline of, or happy encounter of - numbering days according to the Most Holy Trinity. The Ordinariate, you will recall dear Reader, has preserved the Octave of Pentecost, as is appropriate for the Third Person of the Holy Trinity. Here we are in the midst of Trinitytide; Trinity XVII, to be exact. Lord, we pray thee that thy grace may always precede and follow us: and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. - Collect for Trinity XVII, Divine Worship: The Missal A wise pastor reminds us that "(t)his prayer from the Gregorian Sacramentary is in eff...