WDTPRS: Collect – Friday of the 2nd Week of Advent

Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, plebi tuae adventum Unigeniti tui cum summa vigilantia exspectare, ut, sicut ipse docuit auctor nostrae salutis, accensis lampadibus in eius occursum vigilantes properemus.

The Collect for Friday of the 2nd Week of Advent. This is an ancient prayer, found in the Gelasian Sacramentary among the prayers for Advent. Exspecto means, basically, “await”. But our fully-stocked Lewis & Short Dictionary shows that it means also “to look for with hope, fear, desire, expectation, to hope for, long for, expect, desire; to fear, dread, anticipate,…

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