Collect · Feb 24, 2010 · LENT
WDTPRS – Wednesday 1st Week of Lent – Oratio super populum (2002MR)
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ORATIO SUPER POPULUM (2002MR): Tuere, Domine, populum tuum, et ab omnibus peccatis clementer emunda, quia nulla ei nocebit adversitas, si nulla ei dominetur iniquitas.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Protect your people, O Lord, and mercifully cleanse it from all sins, for no adversity will harm it, if it is dominated by no iniquity.
This "Prayer over the people" was in the Liber sacramentorum Augustodunensis for Ash Wednesday, and it seems to have been inspired in some measure by St. Leo the Great’s s. 57. SLAVISHLY LITERAL VERSION: Protect your people, O Lord, and mercifully cleanse it from all sins, for no adversity will harm it, if it is dominated by no iniquity.