The Collect for February 10, the Memoria of Saint Scholastica, (a new composition in 1970) contains the clause obtineamus tuae dilectionis effectus, which can be translated ‘that we may obtain the effects of your love’. Our official translation reads ‘that … we may … receive what comes from loving you’. But does this correctly render tuae dilectionis? Would we not expect to find tui (pronoun) if the author had intended to speak of our love of God? And does not the Latin collect speak rather of God’s love for us and of its effects?
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