Tuesday in the 2nd Week of Lent
Novus OrdoTuesday of the 2nd week of Lent — Feb 23, 2027, Mar 14, 2028
Custodi, Domine, quaesumus, Ecclesiam tuam propitiatione perpetua, et quia sine te labitur humana mortalitas, tuis semper auxiliis et abstrahatur a noxis, et ad salutaria dirigatur.Guard your Church, O Lord, we beseech You, with perpetual favor, and since without You our mortal flesh slides toward ruin by means of your helping remedies let it be pulled back from injuries and be guided unto saving healths. There are different ways to do this, but I wanted to place in evidence the image of health and the flesh and medicine.
COLLECT Custodi, Domine, quaesumus, Ecclesiam tuam propitiatione perpetua, et quia sine te labitur humana mortalitas, tuis semper auxiliis et abstrahatur a noxis, et ad salutaria dirigatur. Propitiatio in its fundamental meaning meanings and "an appeasing, atonement, propitiation". The dictionary of liturgical Latin Blaise also gives us a view of the word as "favor". This makes sense. God has been appeased…