St. Anthony Abbot – Metropolitan Museum of Art
Once upon a time in Velletri, the main city of of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Velletri-Segni, at the Church of St. Anthony the Abbot, I did on this day stand outside the homonymous church in cassock, surplice, stole and biretta blessing pigs and horses. I found a photo page of this event in Velletri. The photos are not of the year I did this, but they are from Velletri, depicting the same event in another year.
COLLECT:
Deus, qui beato Antonio abbati tribuisti
mira tibi in deserto conversatione servire,
eius nobis interventione concede,
ut, abnegantes nosmetipsos,
te iugiter super omnia diligamus
LITERAL TRANSLATION:
O God, who granted to blessed Anthony the Abbot
to serve You in the desert with a wondrous way of life,
grant now to us by his intecession,
that we, denying ourselves,
may always love you above all things.
