Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, God the Lord of knowledge, who gives His wonders and orders all things well, who rides upon the clouds, the Lord is His name: may He, the living and true Bread, who descended from heaven to give food to the hungry, indeed still more to be Himself the food for the living, come into being for us in this bread, through which the hearts are strengthened, so that through the power of this bread we are able to fast during these forty days without the impediment of flesh and blood: now that we have the Bread Himself who nourishes the poor with loaves, who consecrated the forty-day fast through Moses and Elijah when they fasted for forty days, who later in His own fasting for us marked the same numbers of days with the solemn practice of fasting, let us strive to imitate what the Lord Himself accomplished for us in the weakness of our body in forty days without interruption, albeit little by little with the same calculated number of days by observing the arrangement of the evening meals: through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who on the day before…
Missale Gothicum, Prayer after the Sanctus in the Beginning of Lent
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