Sunday, January 9, 2022

"Grant . . . that for our treasure we may give to thy service ourselves and all that we have"

"Almighty and everlasting God, who hast made known the incarnation of thy Son by the bright shining of a star, which when the wise men beheld they adored thy majesty and presented costly gifts: Grant that the star of thy righteousness may always shine in our hearts, and that for our treasure we may give to thy service ourselves and all that we have; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord."

"Omnipotens sempiterne deus, qui uerbi tui incarnationem praeclari testimonio sideris indicasti, quod uidentes magi oblatis maiestatem tuam muneribus adorarent: concide, ut semper in mentibus nostris tuae appareat stella iustitiae et noster in tua sit confessione thesaurus: per."

"Almighty and everlasting God, who hast made known the incarnation of thy [Word] by the bright shining of a star, which when the wise men beheld they adored thy majesty and presented costly gifts: Grant that the star of thy righteousness may always shine in our hearts, and that for our treasure we may give to thy service ourselves and all that we have; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord."

     Collect "in theophania in die," Galasian sacramentary.  No. 61 in the critical edition of 1960 ed. Mohlberg.  P. 11 in the 19th-century edition ed. H. A. Wilson.

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