Collect · Sep 6, 2015 · WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 15th Sunday after Pentecost (EF): Sailing rough seas
Vetus Ordo15th Sunday after Pentecost — Aug 29, 2027, Sep 17, 2028
Ecclesiam tuam, Domine, miseratio continuata mundet et muniat: et quia sine te non potest salva consistere; tuo semper munere gubernetur.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Let Your continuous compassion, cleanse and defend Your Church, O Lord, and because without You she cannot stand to safe, may she forever be steered by Your favor.
Today’s Collect survived the long knives of the Consilium to live on the in the Novus Ordo editions of the Missale Romanum on Monday of the 3rd Week of Lent. Figure that one out. We find it in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary for a Sunday, with a minor spelling variation. It is thus ancient. There are other reason to…