DIVINUM OFFICIUM Prayer

Collecta

Advent Ember Days - Sat

Ember Saturday's collect acknowledges affliction due to sin ("ex nostra pravitate affligimur") and seeks consolation through divine visitation. The theological structure moves from confession of unworthiness to petition for comfort. As the traditional day for ordinations, this collect expresses ministerial humility before the coming Lord.

LATINE
Deus, qui conspicis, quia ex nostra pravitate affligimur: concede propitius; ut ex tua visitatione consolemur: Qui vivis.
ENGLISH
O God, you see that we are afflicted because of our iniquity; have pity, and grant that we may be comforted by thy visitation. Who livest.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Advent Ember Days - Sat
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GENVS
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