WDTPRS – 11th Sunday after Pentecost: healthy “pessimism”, a realistic view of who we are and who we aren’t

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui abundantia pietatis tuae et merita supplicum excedis et vota: effunde super nos misericordiam tuam; ut dimittasquae conscientia metuit, et adicias quod oratio non praesumit.

With a minor variation this week’s Collect was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary. It survived the cut to live on in the Novus Ordo Missale Romanum as the Collect on the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Our information-oozing Lewis & Short Dictionary, says votum means “a solemn promise made to some deity; a vow.” It is therefore also the thing…

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