"...and in honour of the saints"

I went to mass this morning at St. Clement's. In the Latin mass they have this prayer as part of the Offertory (Preparation of the Gifts) (it was removed from the 1970 Missal, so you don't get it in the Novus Ordo mass):

"Accept, holy Trinity, this oblation (offering) which we offer to you in memory of the passion, resurrection, and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ; and in honour of blessed Mary ever Virgin and of blessed John the Baptist, and of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and of these (whose relics rest here in the altar), and of all the Saints. To them may it bring honour, and to us salvation; and may they, whose memory we keep on earth, be pleased to intercede for us in heaven. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen"

I really like it. It reminds us that the ultimate point of the cross is to bring honour to the saints and at every mass we not only participate in the memorial of Christ's suffering, resurrection, and ascension, but also in the act of bringing honour to all those who have been saved through Christ's cross and resurrection (including my own blessed daughter, Naomi Therese).


[Here is the Latin text:

Suscipe, sancta Trinitas, hanc oblationem, quam tibi offerimus ob memoriam passionis, resurrectionis, et ascensionis Jesu Christi Domini nostri: et in honorem beatae Mariae semper Virginis, et beati Joannis Baptistae, et sanctorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli, et istorum, et omnium Sanctorum: ut illis proficiat ad honorem, nobis autem ad salutem: et illi pro nobis intercedere dignentur in caelis, quorum memoriam agimus in terris. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.]