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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS 11th Ordinary Sunday: God begins and completes the meritorious things we do
This week’s Collect is effectively the same as one in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary and the prayer in the 1962 Missale Romanum used during the week after Trinity Sunday. Deus, in te sperantium fortitudo, invocantibus nostris adesto propitius, et, quia … Read More
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WDTPRS: Corpus Christi – I affirm my subjugation to Christ vanquisher of hell and my sins.
Here is a photo I took a few years ago in the Vatican Gardens during a Corpus Christi procession. That great edifice in the background is back of St. Peter’s Basilica. It isn’t often you get Swiss Guards to carry … Read More
WDTPRS 7th Sunday of Easter: the consummation of the world
According to the calendar for the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, in some places on Sunday people will celebrated Ascension Thursday. In other places people will celebrate the 7th Sunday of Easter. Let’s look at the Collect for the … Read More
WDTPRS Ascension (1962MR): cracks into a greater way, a bigger way of living
I was struck today by the beauty of the Communion rite today, the Communion Antiphone and the Post Communion prayer in older, traditional form of Holy Mass today, for the Feast of the Ascension… which falls 40 days after Easter. The … Read More
Denver priest ‘pulls out the big guns’: TLM outside Planned Parenthood
Here is something Life News to stir the heart. Fr. Joseph Hearty. OORAH! Denver priest ‘pulls out the big guns’ on Planned Parenthood: says Mass on the street outside clinic BY CHRISTINE DHANAGOM Mon Apr 23, 2012 DENVER, CO, April … Read More
WDTPRS 3rd Sunday of Easter – “bright like kindled candles, honey sweet”
This Sunday’s Collect, for the 3rd Sunday of Easter, it seems to me, reflects a conscious attempt on the part of Holy Church to remind us of the Easter Vigil. The prayer has antecedents in both the Veronese and Gelasian … Read More
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WDTPRS Collect for Thursday, 2nd Week of Easter
A reader sent a note about today’s Collect, Thursday in the 2nd Week of Easter, in the Ordinary Form. Here is the Latin: Deus, qui salute mundi sacrificum paschale effecisti, propitiare supplicationibus populi tui, ut interpellans pro nobis Christus Pontifix … Read More
WDTPRS Easter Thursday – diversity and wholeness
The Collect for the Ordinary Form and the Extraordinary Form caught my eye: Deus, qui diversitatem gentium in confessione tui nominis adunasti, da, ut renatis fonte baptismatis una sit fides mentium et pietas actionum. This is a modern tinkering with … Read More
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WDTPRS Easter Monday – Post Communion
The Post Communion prayer for today’s Mass in the Ordinary Form caught my eye because of it’s interesting beginning. Exuberet, quaesumus, Domine, mentibus nostris paschalis gratia sacramenti, ut, quos viam fecisti perpetuae salutis intrare, donis tuis dignos efficias. This prayer … Read More
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