Collect · Apr 4, 2011 · WDTPRS

WDTPRS Monday 4th Week of Lent – Oratio super populum

Novus OrdoMonday of the 4th week of Lent — Mar 8, 2027, Mar 27, 2028

ORATIO SUPER POPULUM: Plebem tuam, Domine, quaesumus, interius exteriusque restaura, ut quam corporeis non vis delectationibus impedire, [sic – SIRENS! ALARM BELLS! FLAGS!] spiritali facias vigere proposito.
Fr. Z’s literal rendering

Restore Your people, O Lord, we beg, inwardly and outwardly, so that that (people) which You do not desire to be entangled in corporeal delectations, You may cause to thrive by a spiritual course of life.

The 3rd edition of the Missale Romanum restored the Lenten “Prayer over the people”. The prayer today has a problem. The Veronese Sacramentary has this prayer for the month of September for the anniversary of the consecration of the bishop. It is also listed as a prayer for Thursday of the 4th week of Lent for Vespers in the Fulda…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere