Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Understanding words

In the Offertory Prayer of Mass today, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, the priest prays:
"... on account of her prevenient grace,......"

Will everyone in churches, where that word is used in prayer, understand what it means?

What does it mean?

Vernacular?

1 comment:

Póló said...

I am not in the least familiar with whatever prayer that is from but if I was in a quiz and asked the question I would say it referred to the immaculate conception. Think about it.

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