1st Sunday of Lent – COLLECT (1)
Novus Ordo1st Sunday of Lent — Feb 14, 2027, Mar 5, 2028
Concede nobis, omnipotens Deus, ut, per annua quadragesimalis exercitia sacramenti, et ad intellegendum Christi proficiamus arcanum, et effectus eius digna conversatione sectemur.Almighty God, grant us that, by means of the annual exercises of the forty-day mystery, we may both make progress in understanding the mystery of Christ and by worthy conduct of life imitate its consequences. We have to dig into our dictionaries when we look at these subtle prayers. Sometimes Latin words look like familiar words in English and we can be fooled by them if we are not alert. I provide vocabulary so that you can see my reasons for picking the English words I do and the other possibilities too. In my literal version of the collect, for quadragesimalis I chose to say “forty-day” rather than “lenten” (which comes from the Old English for “spring”) in order to…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? First Sunday of Lent – Station: St. John Lateran ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2001 Each of the days of Lent has its own special collect and “station.” Sometime ago I mentioned the station Masses and promised to return to them. The Roman stations are an ancient custom, whereby each day during Lent,…