As mentioned last week, during Lent there is a special prayer at the end of Holy Mass, the Oratio Super Populum, or Prayer Over the People. In this time of greater spiritual combat Father begs an additional blessing over you. In the Novus Ordo, these prayers are also on Sundays. Here is the Oratio for the Third Sunday of Lent:
Rege, Domine, quaesumus, tuorum corda fidelium, et servis tuis hanc gratiam largire propitius, ut in tui et proximi dilectione manentes plenitudinem mandatorum tuorum adimpleant.
