Post Communion · Mar 11, 2009 · LENT, WDTPRS
WDTPRS: Wednesday 2nd Week of Lent – Post communionem (2002MR)
Novus OrdoWednesday of the 2nd week of Lent — Feb 24, 2027, Mar 15, 2028
EM (2002MR): Quaesumus, Domine Deus noster, ut, quod nobis ad immortalitatis pignus esse voluisti, ad salutis aeternae tribuas provenire suffragium.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
We beseech, O Lord our God, that, what You desired to be for us unto the pledge of immortality, You may grant to turn out to be unto the favorable support of eternal salvation.
We continue our project of looking at the Post communions of Lent: Wednesday – 2nd Week of Lent This prayer was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary. The noun pignus is “a pledge, gage, pawn, security, mortgage (of persons as well as things).” The root of this word is pac, as in the verb pango, panxi, panctum, and pegi or pepigi,…