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Category Archives: WDTPRS
ASK FATHER: What’s the difference between the “rejoice” of “Laetare” Sunday of Lent and “Gaudete” Sunday of Advent?
From a reader… QUAERITUR What is the difference between gaudete and laetare? Gaudete seems to be 2nd person plural imperative, while laetare looks like an infinitive. Both mean “rejoice” but is there a subtle theological difference in meaning? Laetare Sunday … Read More
WDTPRS – 24th and Last Sunday after Pentecost: Like lightning in the East
This is the Last Sunday of the liturgical year. The last part of the liturgical year thematically dovetails with the first part of the new liturgical year. Advent was once longer, so the overlap of reflection on the End Times across … Read More
WDTPRS – 20th WEEK after Pentecost: Quiet is a hallmark of the holy.
This year, 2025, the 20th Sunday after Pentecost gave way to the Feast of Christ the King, since it was the last Sunday of October. Hence, we don’t get to hear the Collect until a day during the week when … Read More
Diabolical Contagion – 17th Sunday after Pentecost – WDTPRS
Is this prayer appropriate today or what?!? This Sunday’s Collect prayer – in the Vetus Ordo: Da, quaesumus, Domine, populo tuo diabolica vitare contagia: et te solum Deum pura mente sectari. So might say, “Why look at a prayer from last Sunday?” Firstly, in a … Read More
WDTPRS – 16th Sunday after Pentecost: We need grace so as not to fail in the vocations God entrusts to us
See my piece on the readings for the 16th Sunday over at One Peter Five: HERE This Sunday’s dense Collect survived the scissors and paste-pots of the Consilium during the 1960’s and lived on in the post-Conciliar Missale Romanum as … Read More
8 September – Feast of the Nativity of Mary and a “flash of anamnesis”
The Nativity of Mary, which we celebrate on 8 September – let’s get out ahead of it this time – is older than the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which was precisely nine months ago. Stop for a moment. Consider … Read More
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WDTPRS – 11th Sunday after Pentecost: healthy “pessimism”, a realistic view of who we are and who we aren’t
With a minor variation this week’s Collect was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary. It survived the cut to live on in the Novus Ordo Missale Romanum as the Collect on the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui … Read More
WDTPRS – 8th Sunday after Pentecost (1962MR): True freedom
Today’s Collect – for Mass and the Office on this 8th Sunday after Pentecost – is found in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and the so-called Gregorian. It survived the liturgical tailors with their scissors and thread to … Read More
Sad news about a long-time reader and a WDTPRS look at the Collect of the Mass “for the sick near to death”
I received sad news. A long time reader and commentator here, even longer from my time with The Wanderer, passed away last night. In your kindness please pray for Charles Henry Edwards. Henry was a key figure in fostering celebration … Read More
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