February 13, 2020
In the traditional Roman calendar Pre-Lent is under way. This Sunday is Sexagesima. In the newfangled calendar it is the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time. The upcoming Collect is founded on a prayer from the 8th-century, Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis: Deus, qui te in rectis et sinceris manere pectoribus asseris, da nobis tua gratia tales exsistere,