Friday after Ash Wednesday: Super Oblata
Novus OrdoFriday after Ash Wednesday — Feb 12, 2027
Sacrificium, Domine, observantiae quadragesimalis offerimus, quod tibi, quaesumus, mentes nostras reddat acceptas, et continentiae promptioris nobis tribuat facultatem.We are offering, O Lord, the Sacrifice of the Lenten observance, which, we beseech You, may render our minds acceptable to You, and may impart to us the grace of a more ready continence. Since the Fall, we all suffer temptations which are mainly of the spirit and mainly of the flesh. Both affect our whole person, since we are both body and soul which are intended by God to form one person. Thus we want our thoughts and motions of the mind to be properly disposed and directed for our overall human/spiritual well-being and we want those motions of the flesh and its urgings to be well under control so that our human/spiritual well-being is not threatened.
We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s Both the grand Lewis and Short as well as Blaise/Dumas indicate that acceptus is not just "accepted" but "welcome, acceptable, agreeable". Blaise/Dumas says that in liturgical Latin facultas is "possibility" or also "grace" as in f. sufficiens. In classical Latin facultas already as the connotation of sufficiency.…