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WDTPRS – Collect of Ember Wednesday of Lent (TLM & Novus)

I’m sure you know that only a tiny percent of the orations of the Vetus Ordo made it into the Novus Ordo unmolested. Well… maybe that isn’t quite the right word in every case. In some cases the Novus changed … Read More

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WDTPRS – Quinquagesima Sunday: Prepare for BATTLE!

In our traditional Roman calendar, Sunday is Quinquagesima, Latin for the symbolic “Fiftieth” day before Easter.  This is one of the pre-Lenten Sundays which prepare us for the discipline of Lent. The priest’s vestments are purple. No Gloria.  No Alleluia. The prayers … Read More

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I’ve got a Secret… from the Votive Mass “to beg for the grace of dying well”

The other day I posted about the Collect for the beautiful Votive Mass “ad postulandam gratiam bene moriendi … to beg for the grace of dying well”. Here is the Secret of that Mass formulary. Suscipe, quaesumus, Domine, hostiam quam … Read More

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WDTPRS: Septuagesima Sunday

The Collect of the Mass for Septuagesima Sunday is bracing.  It has a different feel than many of our Sunday orations.  Bl. Ildefonso Schuster observes, that this prayer “betrays the deep affliction which weighed on the soul of St. Gregory … Read More

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26 Jan (N.O. 23 Feb): St. Polycarp of Smyrna, bishop and martyr

St. Polycarp (+156) was Bishop in Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey).  When young he was a disciple of the elderly St. John the Apostle and Evangelist.  He knew St. Ignatius of Antioch. When Ignatius was being conveyed to Rome for his … Read More

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WDTPRS – 3rd Sunday after Epiphany: Shelter from the attacks of Hell

ALERT: A small percentage of orations from our Roman heritage survived the the scissors and paste-pots of Bugnini and his merry band of experts in the Consilium.  This is one of them. Today’s Collect was in the ancient Veronese and … Read More

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WDTPRS: a “liturgical unicorn” – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (N.O.: 2nd Ordinary)

Media lies and political collaboration Mass psychosis formation Suppression of freedoms Snuggling with Communism Open persecution of traditional Catholics Anarchy in the streets Active promotion of homosexualism Cancel culture in the Church Obsession with process Prelates of pornotheology celebrated, promoted, … Read More

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WDTPRS – Baptism of the Lord (Double Dipping)

On the SIXTH of January, Epiphany, we prayed liturgically with the three mysteries of the Lord’s life revealing Him as divine: the adoration of Jesus by the Magi, the changing water to wine at Cana, and His baptism by John in … Read More

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WDTPRS – Epiphany Collect: transformed by the beauty of Your sublime glory

In the ancient Western Church and in the East, Epiphany was more important than the relative latecomer Christmas.  Epiphany is from the Greek word for a divine “manifestation” or “revelation”.  There are many “epiphanies” of God in the Scripture.  Think, … Read More

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28 Dec – Holy Innocents – Childermas: “They were the Church’s first blossoms”

Thursday was Christmas. Today, along with it being the Sunday in the Octave, it is Childermas, the Feast of the Holy Innocents. The “Coventry Carol”, a lullaby of mothers to doomed children, dates to the 16th century. It was part of a Mystery … Read More

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