6th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Collect (1)
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.O God, who declared 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 have deigned to abide. Rectus, from rego, means "straight, upright" which also applies in the moral sense of "morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good." Sincerus means "clean, pure, sound, not spoiled, uninjured, whole, entire, real, natural, genuine, sincere." It also has a moral connotation. Pectus signifies a range of things from "the breast bone, chest" "stomach" and therefore by extension concepts like "courage" and other "feelings, dispositions". It also refers to the "spirit, soul, mind, understanding." In the ancient world, the heart was thought in some ways to be…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2001 In the older, traditional, calendar of the Roman Church this Sunday is called Septuagesima, that is, the "Seventieth" day before Easter. Lent’s official name is Quadragesima, "Fortieth". Septuagesima is/was one of the pre-Lenten Sundays, a time of preparing for the abstinence of…