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Wednesday, February 17, 2027

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Ember Wednesday of Lent

II class · Violet

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Commentary for this day

CollectFeb 25, 2026

WDTPRS – Collect of Ember Wednesday of Lent (TLM & Novus)

Devotionem populi tui, quaesumus, Domine, benignus intende: ut, qui per abstinentiam macerantur in corpore, per fructum boni operis reficiantur in mente.
Literal rendering

We beg You, O Lord, kindly look upon the devotion of Your people, with the result that they who by means of abstinence are being tenderized in respect to the body may by means of the fruit of good work be refreshed in respect to the mind.

I’m sure you know that only a tiny percent of the orations of the Vetus Ordo made it into the Novus Ordo unmolested. Well… maybe that isn’t quite the right word in every case. In some cases the Novus changed the prayer to an even more ancient form. However, ancient isn’t always better. We learn, deepen our understanding over the…

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CollectMar 16, 2011

WDTPRS – Ember Wednesday of Lent (1962MR & 2002MR)

Remember today’s LENTCAzT. COLLECT (1962RM): Devotionem populi tui, quaesumus, Domine, benignus intende: ut, qui per abstinentiam macerantur in corpore, per fructum boni operis reficiantur in mente.
Literal rendering

We beg You, O Lord, kindly look upon the devotion of Your people, with the result that they who by means of abstinence are being sparing in due measure in respect to the body may by means of the fruit of good work be refreshed in respect to the mind.

In the Novus Ordo the prayer is somewhat softened. Are you getting used to that now? COLLECT (2002MR): Devotionem populi tui, quaesumus, Domine, benignus intende, ut, qui per abstinentiam temperantur in corpore, per fructum boni operis reficiantur in mente. Our prayers this week are giving us different virtues to think about: devotio, moderatio, temperatio. There is a frequent juxtaposition of…

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From 1st Sunday of Lent

On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.

CollectFeb 25, 2023

WDTPRS – 1st Sunday of Lent (TLM): our season of transforming mystery

Deus, qui Ecclesiam tuam annua quadragesimali observatione purificas: praesta familiae tuae; ut, quod a te obtinere abstinendo nititur, hoc bonis operibus exsequatur.
Literal rendering

O God, who purify Your Church by means of the annual forty-day Lenten observance: grant to Your family; that, what it strives to obtain from You by abstaining, may be achieved by good works.

With this 1st Sunday of Lent we are fully into our forty day season of purification and preparation. Speaking of forty, the Latin for Lent is Quadragesima, “fortieth”. St Leo the Great (d 461) used the phrase quadragesimale ieiunium, “the Forty Fast”, for Lent. English “Lent” comes from Old English lencten for “spring”.

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order

commemoration · Violet · Lent · Year B

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Commentary for this day

CollectMar 12, 2014

WDTPRS Wednesday 1st Week of Lent: getting tenderized

Devotionem populi tui, quaesumus, Domine, benignus intende, ut, qui per abstinentiam temperantur in corpore, per fructum boni operis reficiantur in mente.

Today’s Collect was in the pre-Conciliar Missale for Thursday (not Wednesday) of the 1st Week of Lent, but slightly different. In the Novus Ordo it is somewhat softened. Are you getting used to that now? The complicated term mens figures in this prayer. It pops up as a theme, a thread to follow in the maze of Lenten orations. Mens…

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CollectFeb 24, 2010

WDTPRS – Wednesday 1st Week of Lent – Oratio super populum (2002MR)

ORATIO SUPER POPULUM (2002MR): Tuere, Domine, populum tuum, et ab omnibus peccatis clementer emunda, quia nulla ei nocebit adversitas, si nulla ei dominetur iniquitas.
Literal rendering

Protect your people, O Lord, and mercifully cleanse it from all sins, for no adversity will harm it, if it is dominated by no iniquity.

This "Prayer over the people" was in the Liber sacramentorum Augustodunensis for Ash Wednesday, and it seems to have been inspired in some measure by St. Leo the Great’s s. 57. SLAVISHLY LITERAL VERSION: Protect your people, O Lord, and mercifully cleanse it from all sins, for no adversity will harm it, if it is dominated by no iniquity.

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Post CommunionMar 4, 2009

WDTPRS: Wednesday 1st Week of Lent – Post communionem (2002MR)

Deus, qui nos sacramentis tuis pascere non desistis, tribue, ut eorum indulta refectio vitam, quaesumus, conferat sempiternam.
Literal rendering

O God, who do not cease to feed us by Your sacraments, grant, that their permitted refreshment may, we implore, confer eternal life.

We continue our project of looking at the Post communions of Lent: Wednesday – 1st Week of Lent This prayer was in the Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae on the anniversary of a bishop’s consecration. It is in various manuscripts, such as the Liber Sac. Augustodunensis, Englolismensis and Gellonensis. POST COMMUNIONEM: Deus, qui nos sacramentis tuis pascere non desistis, tribue, ut…

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From 1st Sunday of Lent

On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.

CollectFeb 25, 2023

WDTPRS – 1st Sunday of Lent (N.O.): our season of transforming mystery

Concede nobis, omnipotens Deus, ut, per annua quadragesimalis exercitia sacramenti, et ad intellegendum Christi proficiamus arcanum, et effectus eius digna conversatione sectemur.
Literal rendering

Grant to us, Almighty God, that, through the annual exercises of the forty-day Lenten mystery, we may both make progress in understanding the hidden dimension of Christ and imitate the consequences by worthy conduct of life.

The Roman Station for the 1st Sunday of Lent is St. John Lateran. COLLECT – LATIN TEXT (2002MR): Quadragesima is the Latin word for the season of Lent, literally “fortieth” (from quadraginta “forty”) for the fortieth weekday before Easter (Ash Wednesday). In Souter’s A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., we find quadragesimalis is the adjective form for “forty”…

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Also posted: Mar 5, 2006 · Mar 5, 2006

CollectFeb 25, 2007

1st Sunday of Lent

Caelesti pane refecti, quo fides alitur, spes provehitur et caritas roboratur, quaesumus, Domine, ut ipsum, qui est panis vivus et verus, esurire discamus, et in omni verbo, quod procedit de ore tuo, vivere valeamus.
Literal rendering

Having been renewed by heavenly bread, by which faith is nourished, hope advanced and charity strengthened, we entreat You, O Lord, that we may learn to hunger for Him who is bread living and true, and that we may be able to live by every word which proceeds from Your mouth.

HEBDOMADA PRIMA IN QUADRAGESIMA – 1st WEEK OF LENT 5) Dominica I in Quadragesima – 1st Sunday of Lent a) Collect (article from 2001) b) Super oblata (article from 2002) c) Post Communion (article from 2003) d) Collect (article from 2005) e) Super oblata (article from 2006)

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Prayer over the OfferingsMar 5, 2006

1st Sunday of Lent – SUPER OBLATA (2)

Fac nos, quaesumus, Domine, his muneribus offerendis convenienter aptari, quibus ipsius venerabilis sacramenti celebramus exordium.
Literal rendering

Make us fit, we beg, O Lord, for offering in a suitable manner these gifts, by which we celebrate the beginning of this venerable season of mystery.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 1st Sunday of Lent – Roman Station: Archbasilica of the Most Holy Savior – “St. John Lateran” ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 Hurtling in its orbit about the Sun the spinning globe of our planet Earth has with its partner the Moon whirled us again in their delicate lavolta to the season…

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Post CommunionMar 5, 2006

1st Sunday of Lent – POST COMMUNION

Caelesti pane refecti, quo fides alitur, spes provehitur et caritas roboratur, quaesumus, Domine, ut ipsum, qui est panis vivus et verus, esurire discamus, et in omni verbo, quod procedit de ore tuo, vivere valeamus.
Literal rendering

Having been renewed by heavenly bread, by which faith is nourished, hope advanced and charity strengthened, we beseech, O Lord, that we may learn to hunger for Him, who is the bread living and true, and we may be able to live, by every word which proceeds from thy mouth.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 1st Sunday of Lent – Station: St. John Lateran ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 As the seasons change and the world whirls its course through the cosmos, we return now to the beginning of the liturgical cycle of Lent and Easter. As is proper before a great feast the Church gives us…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere