Collect · Jan 27, 2018 · Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 4th Ordinary Sunday: Billy loves bugs
Novus Ordo4th Sunday of Ordinary Time — Jan 31, 2027, Jan 30, 2028
Concede nobis, Domine Deus noster, ut [et (in Ver.)] te tota mente veneremur, et omnes homines rationabili diligamus affectu.Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Grant us, O Lord our God, that we may venerate you with our whole mind, and may love all men with rational good-will.
Today’s Collect prayer for the 4th Ordinary Sunday (it’s Septuagesima in the traditional calendar) was not in the post-Tridentine editions of the Missale Romanum but it does have its origin in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary. Were you to hear this prayer intoned in Latin, or at least in an accurate translation, you would be thereby transported back 1500 years to…