Thursday in the 1st Week of Lent
Novus OrdoThursday of the 1st week of Lent — Feb 18, 2027, Mar 9, 2028
Largire nobis, quaesumus, Domine, semper spiritum cogitandi quae recta sunt, promptius et agendi, ut, qui sine te esse non possumus, secundum te vivere valeamus.We beg you, O Lord, bestow upon us the spirit of thinking always things which are correct, and of carrying them out promptly, so that we who are not able to exist without You may be able to live according to Your will. Yesterday in my Augustinian peregrinations I found a text which harks to at least the a part of the content of this prayer. In Io. eu. tr. 51,3:
Today’s prayer is unchanged from the Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and so-called "Gregorian". It was in the 1962 Missale Romanum too. It was the used on the 8th Sunday after Pentecost. I cannot fathom why the redactors of the Novus Ordo thought there were not enough ancient lenten prayers in the available venerable sacramentaries.