Collect · Feb 25, 2023 · LENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS

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

Novus Ordo1st Sunday of Lent — Feb 14, 2027, Mar 5, 2028

Concede nobis, omnipotens Deus, ut, per annua quadragesimalis exercitia sacramenti, et ad intellegendum Christi proficiamus arcanum, et effectus eius digna conversatione sectemur.
Fr. Z’s 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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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere