Collect · Mar 14, 2010 · LENT
WDTPRS – 4th Sunday of Lent – Prayer over the people (2002MR)
Novus Ordo4th Sunday of Lent — Mar 7, 2027, Mar 26, 2028
ORATIO SUPER POPULUM (2002MR): Tuere, Domine, supplices tuos, sustenta fragiles, et inter tenebras mortalium ambulantes tua semper luce vivifica, atque a malis omnibus clementer ereptos, ad summa bona pervenire concede.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Defend, O Lord, your humble ones, sustain the fragile, and by your light always breathe life into those walking amidst the shadows of mortal things, and grant them, having been mercifully snatched away from all evils, to attain to the highest of all goods.
During Lent, I have been including the Oratio super populum now restored in the 2002MR. The priest says this, or will when he uses Latin, after the Post communio. It should be in a future English translation. (Cf. 2 Cor 4 – “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light” and Isaiah 9:2, a text usually associated…