Collect · Mar 10, 2013 · LENT, WDTPRS
WDTPRS: Laetare Sunday Prayer over the people: “walking in the shadow of death”
Novus Ordo4th Sunday of Lent — Mar 7, 2027, Mar 26, 2028
ORATIO SUPER POPULUM (2002MR): Tuere, Domine, supplices tuos, sustenta fragiles, et inter tenebras mortalium ambulantes tua semper luce vivifica, atque a malis omnibus clementer ereptos, ad summa bona pervenire concede.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Defend, O Lord, your humble ones, sustain the fragile, and by your light always breathe life into those walking amidst the shadows of mortal things, and grant them, having been mercifully snatched away from all evils, to attain to the highest of all goods.
Something that will slowly but surely become – again- an annual exspectation, is the traditional “Prayer over the people” at the end of Mass during Lent. They were restored to the Ordinary Form with the Latin 3rd edition of the Missale Romanum in 2002. With the implementation of the corrected ICEL translation, people will have now experienced this Lent and…