Fasting and the Orations of the First Sunday of Lent
The greatest difference between the seasons of Lent in the 1962 and 1969 calendars is on the subject of fasting. The 1962 calendar presupposes that the faithful will be keeping the ancient forty-day Lenten fast, and orders its prayers and readings accordingly. One can even go so far as to say that the Lenten propers in the old Missal are geared towards the sanctification of the person through fasting and abstinence. The 1969 Missal, on the other hand, was issued in the wake of Pope Paul VI’s 1966 Apostolic Constitution Paenitemini, which made the Lenten fast optional. Whereas the old Missal mentions, explains, and prays for the practice of fasting on every day of Lent prior to Holy Week (the traditional rite’s Preface for Lent, which is used daily from Ash Wednesday until Passiontide, is supplemented almost daily with additional references to fasting in the proper prayers), the new Missal has only three occasions with required references to the fasting of the faithful: Ash Wednesday (one of the two remaining mandatory fast days of the year), the Collect for the Third Sunday of Lent, and the Prayer over the Offerings for Saturday in the Fifth Week of Lent. The traditional Preface for Lent was retained in the new Missal as Preface IV of the season, but made optional; the new Mass’s First Sunday of Lent refers to Christ’s fast in the desert, but there is no indication that the the faithful should follow His example. As a whole, the new Missal offers little guidance on fasting and almost no prayers for its success.
Deus, qui Ecclesiam tuam ánnua quadragesimáli observatióne puríficas: praesta famíliae tuae: ut, quod a te obtinére abstinendo nítitur, hoc bonis opéribus exsequátur. Per Dóminum.
O God, who dost purify Thy Church by the yearly observance of Lent: grant to Thy household that what it strives to obtain from Thee by abstaining, it may secure by good works. Through our Lord.
How splendid is fasting that is adorned with charity. Break your bread generously with one who is hungry; otherwise yours is not fasting but saving! (Vespers of Tuesday in Lent)
Source: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2021/02/fasting-and-orations-of-first-sunday-of.html
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