DIVINUM OFFICIUM Prayer

Collecta

Lent Ember Days - Fri

This collect for Lenten Ember Friday asks God to be 'gracious unto thy people' and to 'help them by thy kind assistance.' The Friday Ember Day intensifies the penitential character of the fast. The collect balances the severity of fasting with confidence in divine mercy, presenting devotion to God as the source of both obligation and consolation.

LATINE
Esto, Domine, propitius plebi tuae: et, quam tibi facis esse devotam, benigno refove miseratus auxilio. Per Dominum.
ENGLISH
Be gracious, unto thy people, O Lord, and as thou makest them devoted to thee, in thy mercy help them by thy kind assistance. Through our Lord.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Lent Ember Days - Fri
HORA
Lauds
TEMPVS
lent
GENVS
Prayer