Collect · Dec 22, 2024 · ADVENT, GO TO CONFESSION, WDTPRS
WDTPRS: Collect 4th Sunday of Advent (Vetus Ordo) – “What our sins are obstructing”.
Vetus Ordo4th Sunday of Advent — Dec 20, 2026, Dec 19, 2027
Excita, quaesumus, Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni: et magna nobis virtute succurre; ut, per auxilium gratiae tuae, quod nostra peccata praepediunt, indulgentia tuae propitiationis acceleret.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Rouse up Your power, O Lord, we beseech You, and come: and hasten to aid us with your great might, so that, through the help of Your grace, what our sins are hindering the indulgence of Your merciful favor may make swift.
This prayer was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary and other sacramentaries. It survived in edited form in the Novus Ordo on Thursday of the 1st week of Advent. Praepedio means “to entangle the feet or other parts of the body; to shackle, bind, fetter”, and therefore “to hinder, obstruct, impede”. Something is placed “before” (prae) the “foot” (pes), which makes…