Collect · Dec 18, 2008 · ADVENT, WDTPRS
WDTPRS: 18 December COLLECT (2002MR)
Novus OrdoDecember 18 — Dec 18, 2026, Dec 18, 2027, Dec 18, 2028
Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut, qui sub peccati iugo ex vetusta servitute deprimimur, expectata Unigeniti tui nova nativitate liberemur.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Grant, we beseech You, Almighty God, that we who are oppressed under the yoke of sin from the servitude of the old man, may be freed bu the long awaited new Nativity of Your Only-Begotten.
In these final days of Advent preparation, the Church prays with great intensity. It is one of the "greater feria" of Advent, the home stretch, as it were. This was in the 1962MR on Ember Saturday of Advent. It was before that in the Veronese, Gelasian and Gregorian Sacramentaries. These advent prayers often refer to the "state of oldness", which…