Collect · Feb 17, 2010 · LENT, WDTPRS
WDTPRS: Ash Wednesday – Prayer over the people – (1962MR & 2002MR)
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ORATIO SUPER POPULUM (2002MR): Super inclinantes se tuae maiestati, Deus, spiritum compunctionis propitius effunde, ut praemia paenitentibus repromissa misericorditer consequi mereantur.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
O God, graciously pour forth a spirit of compunction upon those bowing themselves to Your majesty, so that they may merit to obtain the rewards promised to penitents.
I am delighted that in the 2002 Missale the tradition of the "Prayer over the people" was revived in Lent. This is an important custom. The origin of the Oratio super populum is quite complex and hard to pin down. Turning to Fr. Joseph A. Jungmann’s monumental two volume The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development we…