During Lent, a season of greater spiritual combat, we have a special prayer at the end of Holy Mass, the Oratio Super Populum, or Prayer Over the People. In the Traditional Latin Mass, we receive these lovely orations each weekday. Paul VI had expunged them with the Novus Ordo, but Benedict XVI restored them in the 2002 edition of the Missale Romanum. Unlike the Post Communion, the object of the Prayer over the People is the congregation present, not “us” (when the priest includes himself). Father begins, “Humiliate capita vestra Deo … Bow your heads to God ...” and then continues. Here is the Oratio Super Populum for the Second Sunday of Lent in the Ordinary Form, or Novus Ordo with origins in the Missale Parisiense and St Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Job.
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It's hard to climb the mountain of Lent, but it is worth the effort
Fr John Zuhlsdorf

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