Collect · Feb 25, 2023 · LENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 1st Sunday of Lent (TLM): our season of transforming mystery
Vetus Ordo1st Sunday of Lent — Feb 14, 2027, Mar 5, 2028
Deus, qui Ecclesiam tuam annua quadragesimali observatione purificas: praesta familiae tuae; ut, quod a te obtinere abstinendo nititur, hoc bonis operibus exsequatur.Fr. Z’s 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”.