Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, infirmitatem nostram propitius respice, atque ad protegendum nos dexteram tuae maiestatis extende.

Today’s Collect was in the ancient Veronese and Gelasian Sacramentaries, and so it represents the best of the liturgical tradition of the early Church in Rome, formed out of the cultural, intellectual, spiritual milieu of the era. There is an elegance to these ancient prayers which hard to capture in English without resorting to nearly archaic forms. However, archaic forms…

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