Collect · Jan 31, 2026 · LENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
WDTPRS: Septuagesima Sunday
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 for our sins are justly afflicted, may for the glory of Your Name mercifully be freed.
The Collect of the Mass for Septuagesima Sunday is bracing. It has a different feel than many of our Sunday orations. Bl. Ildefonso Schuster observes, that this prayer St. Gregory, son of a senator and at 30 years of age Prefect of Rome, was the first Pope from a monastic background. It was a time of upheaval, plague and famine.…