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Our Lady of the Rosary - Collect (Oct 7)

The collect petitions God whose 'Unigenitus per vitam, mortem et resurrectionem suam nobis salutis aeternae praemia comparavit' (only-begotten Son by his life, death, and resurrection hath purchased for us the rewards of eternal salvation). This threefold summary (life, death, resurrection) encompasses the Rosary's Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious mysteries. The petition 'ut imitemur quod continent, et quod promittunt assequamur' (that we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise) defines the Rosary's twofold purpose: conformity to Christ now, glory with Him hereafter.

LATINE
Deus, cujus Unigenitus per vitam, mortem et resurrectionem suam nobis salutis aeternae praemia comparavit: concede, quaesumus; ut haec mysteria sacratissimo beatae Mariae Virginis Rosario recolentes, et imitemur quod continent, et quod promittunt assequamur. Per eumdem Dominum.
ENGLISH
O God, whose only-begotten Son, by his life, death, and resurrection, hath purchased for us the rewards of eternal salvation: grant, we beseech thee, that meditating on these mysteries in the most holy Rosary of the blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise. Through the same.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Our Lady of the Rosary - Collect (Oct 7)
HORA
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