Collect · Aug 16, 2008 · SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS

WDTPRS: 14th Sunday after Pentecost

Vetus Ordo14th Sunday after Pentecost — Aug 22, 2027, Sep 10, 2028

Custodi, Domine, quaesumus, Ecclesiam tuam propitiatione perpetua: et quia sine te labitur humana mortalitas; tuis semper auxiliis et abstrahatur a noxiis, et ad salutaria dirigatur.
Fr. Z’s literal rendering

Guard your Church, we beseech You, O Lord, 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. We all know the image of the slippery slope. Once you are on this slope, scrabble and scratch as you can, you can’t get a purchase.

Here is an excerpt of what I wrote for the paper this week. You can subscribe to an e-version of The Wanderer. Today’s prayer survived the snipping and pasting of the Consilium and the late Rev. Annibale Bugnini’s liturgical experts to be used on Tuesday of the 2nd week of Lent.

Read the full post on wdtprs.com →

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere