In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is called Sexagesima, Latin for the “Sixtieth” day before Easter. These three purple-draped Sundays of pre-Lent encourage us to prepare for the discipline to come. In the Novus Ordo of Paul VI there is no more pre-Lent, a real loss. The Roman Station is the Major Basilica of St Paul “Outside the Walls”.
Collect: “Deus, qui conspicis, quia ex nulla nostra actione confidimus: concede propitius; ut, contra adversa omnia, Doctoris gentium protectione muniamur.”
