1st Week of Advent – Monday
Novus OrdoMonday of the 1st week of Advent — Nov 29, 2027, Dec 4, 2028
Fac nos, quaesumus, Domine Deus noster, adventum Christi Filii tui sollicitos exspectare, ut, dum venerit pulsans, orationibus vigilantes, et in suis inveniat laudibus exsultantes.Cause us, we beg You, O Lord our God, to await as anxious people the coming of Christ Your Son, so that, when He will have come, knocking, He will find people vigilant in prayers and rejoices in His praises. SMOOTHER VERSION: We entreat You, O Lord our God, to make us into a people anxiously awaiting the coming of Christ, Your Son, that, when he arrives and knocks upon the door, He will find us vigilant in prayer and rejoicing in His praises.
Here is the Collect for Monday of the 1st Week of Advent: Today’s prayer had its origin in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary. The adjective sollicitus can have a physical sense of "agitated" as in "busy", but an interior dimension as well, as in "anxious" or "apprehensive". In our context, we are given an image of someone who is interiorly "worked…