"the blessed, ever-virgin Mary, dwelling-place of the Holy Spirit"

Barbara Brocato

"O God, by whose will the blessed, ever-virgin Mary, dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, was on this day presented in the temple, we pray thee grant that through her pleading we may be found worthy to be ourselves presented in the temple of thy glory:  through our Lord . . . in the unity of the same Holy Spirit."

"Deus, qui beatam Mariam semper Virginem, Spiritus Sancti habitaculum, hodierna die in templo praesentari voluisti:  praesta, quaesumus, ut, eius intercessione, in templo gloriae tuae praesentari mereamur.  Per Dominum . . . in unitate eiusdem."

     Collect for the the Presentation of the BVM on 21 November, Tridentine missal.  This prayer was completely re-written after Vatican II, and now lacks the lovely phrase above, which echoes Eph 2:22 at least (for habitaculum occurs 48 times in the Vulgate):

Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone: in whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.  In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

Ergo jam non estis hospites, et advenae: sed estis cives sanctorum, et domestici Dei, superaedificati super fundamentum apostolorum, et prophetarum, ipso summo angulari lapide Christo Jesu: in quo omnis aedificatio constructa crescit in templum sanctum in Domino, in quo et vos coaedificamini in habitaculum [(κατοικητήριον)] Dei in Spiritu.

Cf. Lk 1:35.