The prayer reads:
Visit your people, O Lord, we pray,
and with every-watchful love
look upon the hearts dedicated to you by means of these sacred mysteries
so that under your protection
we may keep safe this remedy of eternal salvation,
which by your mercy we have received.
What does it mean to “keep safe this remedy of eternal salvation”? I understand the remedy of salvation to be the Eucharist (“these sacred mysteries”) which we “have received.” The petition (“we may keep safe”) is undefined and vague.
The earlier (1998) translation which was rejected by the Congregation for Worship and Sacraments read:
Under your protection
may we hold fast to the saving remedy
that we receive through your mercy.
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