Collect · Mar 8, 2010 · SESSIUNCULA

WDTPRS – Monday 3rd Week of Lent – Prayer over the people (2002MR & 1962MR)

Novus OrdoMonday of the 3rd week of Lent — Mar 1, 2027

ORATIO SUPER POPUUM (2002MR): Tueatur, quaesumus, Domine, dextera tua populum deprecantem. et purificatum dignanter erudiat, ut consolatione praesenti ad futura bona proficiat.
Fr. Z’s literal rendering

May Your right hand, O Lord, defend Your pleading People, and worthily instruct it (they/us), once purified, so that by present consolation it (they/us) may attain to good things to come.

Today we will compare the Oratio super populum from the Ordinary Form and the Extraordinary Form. A great new feature of the 2002 Missale Romanum in Latin is that for Lent the "Prayer over the people" or Oratio super populum has been revived as an option.

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