DIVINUM OFFICIUM Prayer

Collecta

Lent Ember Days - Sat

This collect for Lenten Ember Saturday petitions God to 'look down favorably upon thy people and turn away the scourges of thy wrath.' The Saturday Ember Day concludes the quarterly fast and traditionally hosted ordinations. The collect's language of divine wrath reflects the penitential theology of Lent, where fasting appeases God's justice offended by sin.

LATINE
Populum tuum, quaesumus, Domine, propitius respice: atque ab eo flagella tuae iracundiae clementer averte. Per Dominum.
ENGLISH
Look down favorably upon thy people, we beseech thee, O Lord, and mercifully turn away from them the scourges of thy wrath. Through our Lord.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Lent Ember Days - Sat
HORA
Lauds
TEMPVS
lent
GENVS
Prayer