Collect · Oct 22, 2016 · GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 23rd Sunday after Pentecost: SNIP!
Vetus Ordo23rd Sunday after Pentecost — Oct 24, 2027, Nov 12, 2028
Absolve, quaesumus, Domine, tuorum delicta populorum, ut a peccatorum nexibus, quae pro nostra fragilitate contraximus, tua benignitate liberemur.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Unloose, O Lord, we implore, the transgressions of Your peoples, so that in Your kindness we may be freed from the bonds of the sins which we committed on account of our weakness.
In the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum this Sunday’s Collect prayer in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite was in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary in the month of September, a fast time. It was a bit different: Absolue, domine, quaesumus, tuorum delicta populorum, et quod mortalitatis contrahit fragilitate purifica; ut cuncta pericula mentis et corporis te propellente declinans, tua consolatione subsistat,…