Collect · Mar 26, 2011 · WDTPRS
WDTPRS 3rd Sunday of Lent – We are not in our Lenten discipline alone.
Novus Ordo3rd Sunday of Lent — Feb 28, 2027, Mar 19, 2028
Deus, omnium misericordiarum et totius bonitatis auctor, qui peccatorum remedia in ieiuniis, orationibus et eleemosynis demonstrasti, hanc humilitatis nostrae confessionem propitius intuere, ut, qui inclinamur conscientia nostra, tua semper misericordia sublevemur.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, author of all acts of mercy and all goodness, who in fasts, prayers, and acts of almsgiving indicated the remedies of sins, look propitiously on this testimony of our humility, so that we who are being humbled in our conscience may always be consoled by your mercy.
Our prayer, taken from the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for Saturday of the 4th week of Lent Misericordia means generally “tender-heartedness, pity, compassion, mercy”. In the plural, as we find it today, it refers to works of mercy. We find both a plural and a singular in today’s prayer and we must make a distinction between them. Our bulky and bountiful…