Collect · Feb 14, 2009 · WDTPRS

WDTPRS: Sexagesima

Vetus OrdoSexagesima Sunday — Jan 31, 2027, Feb 20, 2028

Oblatum tibi, Domine, sacrificium vivificet nos semper et muniat.
Fr. Z’s literal rendering

O God, You who perceive that we confide in no action of our own: propitiously grant; that we may be fortified against every adverse thing by the protection of the Doctor of the Gentiles.

Excerpted from columns for The Wanderer. The whole column can be found in that publication. What Does the Prayer Really Say? Sexagesima Sunday (1962 Missale Romanum – Roman Station: St. Paul’s outside-the-walls) According to the traditional Roman calendar, this is the second of the Sundays in “pre-Lent”, called Sexagesima, as in the Latin for the “Sixtieth” day before Easter. This…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere