Collect · Feb 12, 2010 · SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS
WDTPRS: 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Collect
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Deus, qui te in rectis et sinceris manere pectoribus asseris, da nobis tua gratia tales exsistere, in quibus habitare digneris.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, who declared that You remain in upright and pure hearts, grant us to manifest ourselves to be, by your grace, the sort of people in whom You have deigned to abide.
For the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Note that the =eris endings look similar but are really quite different. Digneris is from a deponent verb and is a present indicative, passive in form but active in meaning. Asseris is more complicated. There are two verbs that can give us this form: as-sero, sêvi, situm, 3, "to sow, plant, or set…