Collect · Oct 23, 2022 · Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS

WDTPRS – 20th Sunday after Pentecost: Silence is a hallmark of the holy

Vetus Ordo20th Sunday after Pentecost — Oct 3, 2027, Oct 22, 2028

Largire, quaesumus, Domine, fidelibus tuis indulgentiam placatus et pacem: ut pariter ab omnibus mundentur offensis, et secura tibi mente deserviant.
Fr. Z’s literal rendering

Having been appeased, impart to Your faithful, O Lord, we beseech You, remission and peace: so that in an equal measure they may be cleansed from all sins, and may zealously serve You with a mind free from anxiety.

This 20th Sunday after Pentecost’s ancient Collect is found without variation in the Liber Sacramentorum Gellonensis, written perhaps in Meaux, near Paris, between 790-800. The Gellone Sacramentary, which has Frankish influences, is a strand in the complicated web of manuscripts descending from what we called the Gelasian Sacramentary, the source of so many of our ancient prayers found in the…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere