Collect · Feb 12, 2011 · WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time: “being on the inside what we are on the outside”
Novus Ordo6th Sunday of Ordinary Time — Feb 13, 2028
Deus, qui te in rectis et sinceris manere pectoribus asseris, da nobis tua gratia tales exsistere, in quibus habitare digneris.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who declare that You remain in upright and pure hearts, grant us to manifest ourselves to be, by Your grace, the sort of people in whom You deign to dwell.
A swift look at the Collect for the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time. This is an ancient prayer, found already in the 8th c. Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis. I don’t think it was in the 1962 Missale Romanum or its Roman predecessors. Pectus signifies a range of things from “the breast bone, chest”, “stomach” and therefore by extension concepts like “courage”…