Collect · Feb 5, 2022 · WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 5th Sunday after Epiphany & 5th Ordinary Sunday: A clarion clear call
Novus Ordo5th Sunday of Ordinary Time — Feb 7, 2027, Feb 6, 2028
Familiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine, continua pietate custodi, ut, quae in sola spe gratiae caelestis innititur, tua semper protectione muniatur.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Guard Your family, we beseech You, O Lord, with continual mercy, so that that (family) which is propping itself up upon the sole hope of heavenly grace may always be defended by Your protection.
This Sunday is another liturgical unicorn, that rarity of coinciding prayers in the Vetus and Novus Ordo. This Sunday’s Collect is the same in the pre-Conciliar, 1962 Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany and in the new-fangled Missal that the Council Fathers didn’t mandate and couldn’t have imagined when they voted for Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Novus Ordo of Paul…