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- I dread it as it approaches and think of ways to avoid it. (36%, 9,555 Votes)
- I tolerate it. (35%, 9,195 Votes)
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Should the Bishops of the USA have us return to obligatory meatless Fridays during the whole year and not just during Lent?
- Yes, and I think this is very important. (81%, 15,546 Votes)
- Yes, I guess so. (9%, 1,716 Votes)
- No, I hesitate about such a move. (5%, 900 Votes)
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Category Archives: WDTPRS
QUAERITUR: How early can the Easter Vigil 2011 begin?
Here is an oldie but goodie. Updated for 2011. From a reader: There is a parish in our diocese that is advertising (in the bulletin and even in the diocesan paper) a 4:00 p.m. Easter Vigil. Are there ANY circumstances … Read More
WDTPRS Monday 4th Week of Lent – Oratio super populum
The 3rd edition of the Missale Romanum restored the Lenten “Prayer over the people”. The prayer today has a problem. ORATIO SUPER POPULUM: Plebem tuam, Domine, quaesumus, interius exteriusque restaura, ut quam corporeis non vis delectationibus impedire, [sic – SIRENS! … Read More
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A study in contrasts. Or else… Do we need Summorum Pontificum and the Corrected Translation? I think so.
WDTPRS – Laetare Sunday (2002MR)
The nickname Laetare originated from the first word of the Introit chant for the today’s Mass, “Rejoice!” On Laetare Sunday there is a slight relaxation of Lent’s penitential spirit, because today we have a glimpse of the joy that is … Read More
On the new, corrected translation. Wherein Fr. Z rants and reacts.
Liberals who don’t like the new translation either don’t like the clearer theology of the prayers or the sound of the prayers. The usual tack they take is people are too stupid to understand the new texts. This has been … Read More
WDTPRS Wednesday 3rd Week of Lent: a polishing not a torture
COLLECT Praesta, quaesumus, Domine, ut, per quadragesimalem observantiam eruditi et tuo verbo nutriti, sancta continentia tibi simus toto corde devoti, et in oratione tua semper efficiamur concordes. A bit strange in its style, no? Well, this is of new composition … Read More
Dissident Irish priests whinge about new translation, again, after meeting with Irish Bishops
The dissenting Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland, whom we treated here, are having a nutty over the decision of the Irish Bishops Conference not to conform to dissent but rather conform to will of Rome. These members of the … Read More
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WDTPRS 3rd Sunday of Lent – We are not in our Lenten discipline alone.
Our prayer, taken from the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for Saturday of the 4th week of Lent COLLECT – LATIN TEXT (2002MR): Deus, omnium misericordiarum et totius bonitatis auctor, qui peccatorum remedia in ieiuniis, orationibus et eleemosynis demonstrasti, hanc humilitatis nostrae … Read More
WDTPRS Thursday in the 2nd Week of Lent (2002MR) – steadfastness and the human heart
In the older, pre-conciliar Missal, today’s Collect was used on Wednesday of the 2nd Week of Lent as an Oratio super populum or “Prayer over the people” which followed the Post Communions of the Mass. As such, take note that … Read More
WDTPRS: Tuesday in the 2nd Week of Lent
COLLECT (2002MR): Custodi, Domine, quaesumus, Ecclesiam tuam propitiatione perpetua, et quia sine te labitur humana mortalitas, tuis semper auxiliis et abstrahatur a noxis, et ad salutaria dirigatur. Propitiatio in its fundamental meaning meanings and “an appeasing, atonement, propitiation”. The dictionary … Read More
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