First Sunday of Lent

Sunday 21 February 2010

DOMINICA I IN QUADRAGESIMA
First Sunday of Lent
1st Class, Violet
(Lauds II)


Oremus.

Deus, qui Ecclésiam tuam ánnua Quadragesimáli observatióne puríficas : præsta famíliæ tuæ ; ut, quod a te obtinére abstinéndo nítitur, hoc bonis opéribus exsequátur. Per Dóminum.

Let us pray.

O God, who dost purify thy Church with the annual observance of Lent, grant unto thy household that what it strives to obtain from thee by abstinence it may secure with good works. Through.

Links:

• Fr Goffine's The Church's Year
• The Guéranger Blog: Dom Guéranger on Lent
• Vultus Christi
  
• Gregorian Chant propers
• New Liturgical Movement: Tract "Qui Habitat"
• St Conleth's Catholic Heritage: Lent I: Attende Domine
  

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