Collect · Jul 28, 2023 · WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 9th Sunday after Pentecost: O God, ever distant, ever near
Vetus Ordo9th Sunday after Pentecost — Jul 18, 2027
Pateant aures misericoridae tuae, Domine, precibus supplicantium: et, ut petentibus desiderata concedas; fac eos, quae tibi sunt placita, postulare.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Open the ears of Your mercy, O Lord, to the prayers of those humbly beseeching: and, that You might grant the things desired to those seeking them, cause them to desire the things which are pleasing to You.
This week’s Collect, which historically was in the 8th century Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis, was also the prayer over the people, or Super populum, in the 1962MR for Wednesday of the 4th Week of Lent. It was not, I believe, in the 1970MR or 1975MR (Novus Ordo), but it was reinserted on Saturday of the 2nd Week of Lent in the…