Prayer over the Offerings · Feb 1, 2009 · WDTPRS
WDTPRS: 4th Sunday after Epiphany – SECRET (1962MR)
Vetus Ordo4th Sunday after Epiphany — Jan 30, 2028
Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut huius sacrificii munus oblatum fragilitatem nostram ab omni malo purget semper et muniatFr. Z’s literal rendering
Grant, we beg, Almighty God: that the gift of this Sacrifice offered up may always purge our frailness from every evil and secure it.
Here is part of a piece I wrote for the weekly The Wanderer. In the traditional Roman calendar this is the Season after Epiphany, called in the typical edition of the 1962 Missale Romanum the “Tempus per annum ante Septuagesimam… Time through the year before Septuagesima”. On Monday 2 February, forty days after Christmas, we observe the feast of the…