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Feria IV Cinerum - Ash Wednesday Vespers Collect

This Vespers collect for Ash Wednesday asks that those who 'bow down before thy Divine Majesty' be 'sustained by heavenly aids.' The language of prostration (inclinantes) reflects the bodily postures of Lenten penance. The collect connects the humility of fasting to the reception of divine grace, presenting penance as the disposition for spiritual nourishment.

LATINE
Inclinantes se, Domine, majestati tuae, propitiatus intende: ut, qui divino munere sunt refecti, caelestibus semper nutriantur auxiliis. Per Dominum.
ENGLISH
Look graciously, O Lord, upon those who bow down before thy Divine Majesty, that they who have been refreshed by thy divine gift may always be sustained by heavenly aids. Through our Lord.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Feria IV Cinerum - Ash Wednesday Vespers Collect
HORA
Vespers
TEMPVS
lent
GENVS
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