Collect · Jan 28, 2024 · Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
WDTPRS – Septuagesima Sunday: Lent doesn’t sneak up on “trads”
Vetus OrdoSeptuagesima Sunday — Jan 24, 2027, Feb 13, 2028
Preces populi tui, quaesumus, Domine, clementer exaudi: ut, qui iuste pro peccatis nostris affligimur, pro tui nominis gloria misericorditer liberemur.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
We beseech You, O Lord, graciously to hark to the prayers of Your people: so that we who are justly afflicted for our sins, may mercifully be freed for the glory of Your Name.
On this coming Sunday, Holy Church begins to sing in a new key. We have come around, in the traditional calendar, to Pre-Lent. The “Gesima Sundays” have Roman Stations. Today we are at St. Lawrence “outside the walls”. Being in the presence of the great martyr helps to set the tone.