{"id":3152,"date":"2008-03-17T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T09:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/grant-us-breathing-space\/"},"modified":"2015-03-03T21:19:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T20:19:40","slug":"grant-us-breathing-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/grant-us-breathing-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Us Breathing Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/Tiziano-cristo-alla-colonna.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/Tiziano-cristo-alla-colonna-thumb.gif\" alt=\"Tiziano-cristo-alla-colonna.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><strong>Monday of Holy Week<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s Collect is, without any doubt, one of the most poignant of the whole liturgical year. Here it is in the original Latin, and in three different English translations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Da, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus,<br \/>\nut, qui ex nostra infirmitate deficimus,<br \/>\nintercedente unigeniti Filii tui passione, respiremus.<br \/>\nQui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti,<br \/>\nDeus, per omnia saecula saeculorum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Crichton-Stuart%2C_3rd_Marquess_of_Bute\">Marquess of Bute<\/a> renders it thus:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O Almighty God,<br \/>\nWhich knowest that we be in such straits<br \/>\nthat we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves,<br \/>\nwe pray Thee mercifully to relieve us<br \/>\nfor whom continually pleadeth the Suffering of Thine Only-Begotten Son.<br \/>\nWho liveth and reigneth with Thee<br \/>\nin the unity of the Holy Ghost,<br \/>\none God, world without end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Monsignor Knox gives this:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fainting, thou seest us, Almighty God;<br \/>\nso many perils about us, and we so frail!<br \/>\nLet but the Passion of thy only-begotten Son come between,<br \/>\nto grant us breathing space:<br \/>\nwho with thee in the bond of the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nliveth and reigneth and is God,<br \/>\nworld without end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>And here is my translation:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God,<br \/>\nthat we who, out of the infirmity that is ours, falter and fail,<br \/>\nmay once again breathe freely<br \/>\nthrough the intercession of the Passion of Thine only-begotten Son,<br \/>\nwho liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost,<br \/>\nGod forever and ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday of Holy Week Today&#8217;s Collect is, without any doubt, one of the most poignant of the whole liturgical year. Here it is in the original Latin, and in three different English translations: Da, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut, qui ex nostra infirmitate deficimus, intercedente unigeniti Filii tui passione, respiremus. Qui tecum vivit et regnat in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-week-2008"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-OQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9532,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/9532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}