This Sunday’s ancient Collect for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost in the traditional, Extraordinary Form calendar, is preserved (mostly) on the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time in the post-conciliar Mass. Only 17 per cent of the 1,182 orations in the traditional Missale Romanum made it unscathed into the newer Missal.
Let’s see the Latin of this ancient prayer found already in the 8th-century Liber sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae:
Deus virtutum, cuius est totum quod est optimum: insere pectoribus nostris amorem tui nominis, et praesta in nobis religionis augmentum; ut, quae sunt bona, nutrias, ac pietatis studio, quae sunt nutrita, custodias.
